Do the eliments of the Eucharist mingle with our own body and soul?

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A priest visited our church and during his sermon stated that when we partake of the Eucharist the very body, blood Soul and Divinity of our Lord takes up residents within our own body. To put it in my own words as I understood it… The very cells of our Lord’s body and blood as well as His Divine soul becomes part of us. This sermon was very beautiful to me.

Yet, when I asked another priest about this he told me, “No, it is only spiritual and when another eliment is added to the Eucharist it ceases to be the Eucharist.” We had a long conversation about this and what I took away from this conversation was… The moment the bread and wine touch my tounge the Eucharist ceases to be the Eucharist because the new eliments that make up me are now added to it.

I am confused. Can anyone help?

Jeff
 
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A priest visited our church and during his sermon stated that when we partake of the Eucharist the very body, blood Soul and Divinity of our Lord takes up residents within our own body. To put it in my own words as I understood it… The very cells of our Lord’s body and blood as well as His Divine soul becomes part of us. This sermon was very beautiful to me.

Yet, when I asked another priest about this he told me, “No, it is only spiritual and when another eliment is added to the Eucharist it ceases to be the Eucharist.” We had a long conversation about this and what I took away from this conversation was… The moment the bread and wine touch my tounge the Eucharist ceases to be the Eucharist because the new eliments that make up me are now added to it.

I am confused. Can anyone help?

Jeff
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Actually, they’re both right. Our bodies do absorb the Eucharist and the molecules of the Eucharist become a part of our bodies–however by the time they do get to that stage, it’s no longer the Eucharist itself.

What the first priest was trying to say is that when we consume the Eucharist, Christ becomes a part of us, spiritually; just as food becomes a part of our bodies and nourishes us, Christ joins with our souls, and nourishes our souls.

Once the Eucharistic species no longer has the accidents of bread and wine, it ceases to be the Body of Christ. The second priest was likewise correct, but he did not mean it in the sense that once the Eucharist enters our mouths, we haven’t received Christ.

Once our bodies start to absorb what was once bread, we have already received Christ–this moment is “in the past” and can’t be changed. Once the accidents of bread “go away” that doesn’t mean that we have lost any of the graces of the Sacrament.
 
Thank you FrDavid96,

That deffinitely clears it up for me and now I can better explain it to others that my ask.

Jeff
 
Sometimes it is so much easier to understand all of these spiritual mysteries if we try to stop in practical terms.
 
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