Explaining Transubstantiation
July 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
I’m often surprised at the number of good, faithful Catholics who are well informed about their faith, who do not understand the doctrine of transubstantiation.In my experience they fall into two categories. The first do not believe the Eucharist is anything more than a symbol. The second believe the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ but they think the bread and wine are literally transformed into human flesh and blood.
Neither position is the teaching of the Catholic Church. We believe in transubstantiation. The substance of the bread and wine really are transformed into the Body, Blood Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. However, the transformation is not physical in a literal way. If you took the consecrated host to a laboratory it would be chemically shown to be bread, not human flesh.
Read all of this here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2014/07/explaining-transubstantiation.html
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