Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> 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 by saying that his knowledge is 30 years out of date, but then said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
JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I'm not sure if you misunderstood your Dominican friend, or if you
simply mistyped, but the former of the above is incorrect. The
host is both fully the body and the blood of Christ. Likewise,
the wine is both fully the body and the blood of Christ.
I did not misunderstand him or mistype; he was very clear. But he may
be wrong.
My understanding is that the Catholic church employs an Aristotelian
physics. In such a physics, as far as I understand, bread is flesh
and wine is blood. The solid parallels the solid and the liquid
parallels the liquid.
Moreover, if I remember rightly, the difference between a solid and a
liquid is fundamental, like the difference between Earth and Water,
but the difference between blood and wine is one of accidents. Hence
the latter are easier to transubstantiate.
Since you may perform the sacrament with either the bread or the wine
or both, this understanding works fine.
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Robert J. Chassell
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