Transubstantiation and "Real Presence"

Monday, November 5, 2007, 12:24 AM

If Jesus Christ was “present” in the bread and wine at the Last Supper, and if he is just as present in the Mass, then the explanation is that, as Jesus cannot have been physically present in his “body, soul, and divinity” sitting with the Apostles and, at the same time, monstrously (NOT: mysteriously) “present physically” in the bread and wine (whatever this may mean), he must be “present” (there, and now) in the bread and wine, not literally, but in some other sense. Does it mean to say that also Transubstantiation is a meaningless word? Not at all. In fact it is much more accurate than the vague “Real Presence”.

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