shannin:
I pray that they come to the realization of the precious and sacred gift that Jesus Christ gave to us.
Precious and Sacred indeed !
**Astronomer Lloyd Motz of Columbia University has written, **"**If the total energy contained
in [any] gram of matter were released, it would be sufficient to lift **
a one-million-ton object six miles into the air" (
Science Digest). **A gram is only
1/28 ounce .****If the energy hidden in the bread and wine used at Mass were suddenly set free, everything around it would be blown to dust, ****so unimaginable is the atomic power God has hidden **
in these outwardly unimpressive substances.
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The bread and wine used to confect the Eucharist lie on the altar so still and motionless
but are they? Their electrons are whirling around their atomic nuclei trillions of times a second (1014 revolutions per second), their atoms restlessly elbow one another, their molecules dance to the melodies and discords of such forces as light and heat.
**Do the altar bread and wine influence us? In more ways than one. **
It is a fundamental law of physics that every object in the universe reaches out in gravitational attraction to every other object. This means that while all other objects reach out toward the bread and wine, they in turn reach out in endless gravitational bonds with their influence.
Are the man-made bread and wine ordinary things?** What’s ordinary about, say, the water content of the wine?** Water tempers the world’s weather by its resistance to temperature changes, forms into clouds or explodes into steam, expands as it freezes to insulate lakes and seas, wets as water and cuts as ice, is the most universal solvent, is almost incompressible, pulls itself up against gravity by capillary action, supports weight by surface tension, in clouds floats in the air by the millions of tons, washes away mountains, **is essential to life, and glorifies God by rainbows and snowflakes.****“Ordinary”?****Such things are ****breathtaking ****examples **
of the marvels already imparted by their Eucharistic Architect in the materials prepared for consecration: chosen additionally by his wisdom to symbolize by bread all man’s labors and by wine his celebration.
In the face of such a swarm of merely natural mysteries, the Creator of these wonders steps into our world.** While on earth he showed his power over physical substance **
by changing water into wine at Cana (John 2:1-11) and by twice multiplying loaves and fishes (Matt. 14:14-21 and 15:32-39). First in his own person **and ****then through the lips of those he empowered as his successors, **
he assures us that he has displaced all such hidden mysteries with his glorified body by the words of consecration:
"This is my body . . . This is my blood . . Do this! Can we doubt?
Indeed, the Eucharist is not on trial.
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1999/9907fea5.asp
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