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JimG
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When we receive the Eucharist, the only thing that we can perceive (with our senses) are the accidents of bread and wine–and those accidents do not inhere in Jesus.
Yet Jesus is present whole and entire under the accidents of bread and wine.
Consider that when one breaks the host in two, or four, or 24, pieces, we do not therefore break Jesus, who remains whole and entire under the appearances of the smallest particle of the host or the smallest drop from the chalice. Jesus is present whole and entire, but he is not spread out spatially. We do not receive him piecemeal but in his entirety.
Yet Jesus is present whole and entire under the accidents of bread and wine.
Consider that when one breaks the host in two, or four, or 24, pieces, we do not therefore break Jesus, who remains whole and entire under the appearances of the smallest particle of the host or the smallest drop from the chalice. Jesus is present whole and entire, but he is not spread out spatially. We do not receive him piecemeal but in his entirety.