Need an answer for Alphonsus liguori passage

[humble_catholic]

I’m in a debate with a seventh day Adventist over the Eucharist and he pulled this passage out of no where where st alphonsus says in the Eucharist we create the creator which he said was blasphemous .

Does anyone have a link where I can refute him on this cause I know our faith doesn’t teach that the priest can create god the creator . I know he didn’t mean that passage on this way but I can’t find any Catholic commentary anywhere on this

Material for Sermons. PART i.

more perfect than the apostles," says Innocent III.; " it
was, however, not to her, but only to the apostles, that
the Lord intrusted the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
St. Bernardine of Sienna has written: " Holy Virgin,
excuse me, for I speak not against thee: the Lord has
raised the priesthood above thee." 5 The saint assigns
the reason of the superiority of the priesthood over
Mary; she conceived Jesus Christ only once; but by
consecrating the Eucharist, the priest, as it were, con
ceives him as often as he wishes, so that if the person of
the Redeemer had not as yet been in the world, the
priest, by pronouncing the words of consecration, would
produce this great person of a Man-God. " O wonder
ful dignity of the priests," cries out St. Augustine; " in
their hands, as in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, the
Son of God becomes- incarnate. " : Hence priests are
called the parents of Jesus Christ: 4 such is the title that
St. Bernard gives them, for they are the active cause by
which he is made to exist really in the consecrated
Host.

Thus the priest may, in a certain manner, be called
the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of
consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacra
ment, by giving him a sacramental existence, and pro
duces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father.
As in creating the world it was sufficient for God to
have said, Let it be made, and it was created He spoke,

 

[QuiVenit]

St. Alphonsus is speaking here of the dignity of the Priest that has been given to him by Christ. He is using poetic language as a meditation to focus on the sublime rights in being able to confect the Eucharist.

Someone who is insisting on an overly literal interpretation of this, and who is conveniently ignoring the words “in a certain manner” and “as it were,” is, forgive me, going out of their way to find stones to throw.

I say this respectfully, but your friend needs to focus on real arguments, not on arguments rooted in either tremendous bias or poor reading skill. Moreover, your friend needs to be careful of committing blasphemy himself by being scandalized by Christ’s institution of the Eucharist or in the power that He has given to His priest.