Eucharist; Real Presence; Multi-location

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Neithan:
One obstacle of faith in the Real Presence for me has always been the conundrum of multi-location: how can Christ be fully, physically present in multiple Hosts at the same time? This defies all our understanding of the natural world at its most basic level. God must act at least logically, if not plausibly, and Transubstantiation just seemed too fantastic to chalk up as ‘mystery’.
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How could Christ rise from the dead?:ehh: How could He raise Lazarus from the dead? The answer is that He is God and He said that it was His body and blood.
The intellect always comes up with new problems for faith. It suddenly occured to me that at the Last Supper, Christ was not yet in a glorified state, but He stated quite plainly “This *is *my body” at the Institution of the Eucharist. How are we meant to understand this? Was His Body present in the bread in a glorified state, previous to His Resurrection? How could He be *fully *physically present, sitting there in plain human flesh, and also *fully *physically present in the Host… simultaneously?
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I would say that a good thing to read about is the Catholic understanding of Eternity and time. The graces that Christ recieved for us on the cross were recieved by those who came before He did. God exists in eternity and outside of time. For Him all things occur at once. The Last Supper and The Ressurrection are simultanious.
 
…and let’s not forget supernatural. God can do whatever He wants!! He’s God!!
 
…and lets not forget the supernatural! God can do whatever He wants, even if we don’t understand it with our puny minds.
 
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batteddy:
Substance doesn’t exist in a place. Its accidents relate it to a place, but substance itself is not spatial. The substance is the “who” or “which” is in a place, but it is not the “place-ness” itself. That is an accident.

Try this article:

catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/Jan98/transubstantiation.html
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Absolutely awesome article. I’m going to have to read it several times to get my head round it.
Thank you Bat Tedddy for posting this one.:clapping:
 
Do you believe that He fed 5000 with a few fish and loaves? If yes, then why is it such a stretch to believe in the Real Presence?
 
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