Is the consecrated host conscious?

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If the consecrated host is the body, soul, and divinity of Christ, does that mean that it is conscious? I know I do not understand this mystery, but I imagine the wafer having eyes and looking at me, which is rather creepy and I’m sure not a right understanding at all.
 
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After the consecration, we do not refer to the Eucharist at an it, but a Who. With the Eucharist, the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Since the bread and wine only appear to be bread and wine after the consecration at Mass, the Eucharist is the Person of Jesus who is conscious.

Because you hear a friend’s voice on your cell phone, you do not feel the need to see lips moving on it. You recognize that such imagining is not necessary and is a distraction from the reality of your friend who is trying to communicate with you; so with the Eucharist. Looking at the host is looking at God—but under the appearance of bread. In heaven we will be able to look back and see ourselves adoring Him when all we could see was the host and we will realize what a taste of heaven that experience really was.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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