The Impossible Truth of the Eucharist. A personal account

[mdgspencer]

https://steubenvillefuel.com/2015/04/02/the-impossible-truth-of-the-eucharist/

“This belief in and love of the Eucharist is one of the most surprising things that’s ever happened to me. Never in my dreams would I have thought that I could believe such an outlandish claim.”
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"I know that I eat the flesh and drink the blood of God at the Mass, and that it is the source of my strength.

I know it for the same reason a baby knows that its mother’s milk is the source of its nourishment: the baby can’t tell you how the milk is created… He couldn’t even begin to understand how and why the milk nourishes him if you tried to explain it. He just knows how very much he needs it. He knows that the mysterious substance that his mother gives him is the source of his strength as much as he knows anything at all in his little life. And so it is with the Eucharist and me.

This belief in and love of the Eucharist is one of the most surprising things that’s ever happened to me."

 

[DeSales111]

Amen! Very well said. Our intellegence is less than an infant compared to God. If you think about it, not one person can tell you how God created anything. We can guess all day long but our limited human knowledge can not fathom God’s abilities. So many non Catholics will accept every creation by God even without proof or even trying to seek proof, but yet they will not accept the reality of The Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. I guess it’s because they will have to become Catholic if they cross that line. Great post!

 

[BartholomewB]

In reply to the question, “How, exactly, does it happen?”, the CCC quotes St. John Damascene’s book, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Some people, including myself, find this frank admission that there is no mechanical explanation of what happens at the altar more helpful than the later attempts to adopt (and adapt) Aristotle’s terminology involving “substance” and “accidents”.

You ask how the bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the wine … the Blood of Christ. I shall tell you: the Holy Spirit comes upon them and accomplishes what surpasses every word and thought. … Let it be enough for you to understand that it is by the Holy Spirit, just as it was of the Holy Virgin and by the Holy Spirit that the Lord, through and in himself, took flesh.

See #1106 in the linked page:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2X.HTM