I just talked with a former Dominican priest who prefaced his remarks
by saying that his knowledge is 30 years out of date, but then said
* because of transubstantiation, the wine is the blood and
the bread is the flesh
* but you may perform the sacrament with
either the wine
or the blood
or both
My understanding is that the physics must be Aristotelian, that is to
say you can convert the _substance_ of one matter into another, such
as wine into blood, but not its _accidents_, which are the
characteristics of it that we humans perceive.
Thus, believers would know they are engaging in cannibalism each time
they partook of bread and/or wine in holy communion, but a
non-believing policeman out to make an arrest would only see them
drinking some wine and eating some bread.
--
Robert J. Chassell
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