#transubstantiation

[phosphorusab]

Before Mass begins, the Body and Blood of Christ started out as merely wine and wafers

If Catholics can understand and accept transubstantiation, they can understand and accept transgender people

[headknight-oh]

Ok so we could:

Read Bible fanfic (Good omens)

Read Bible fanfic (Paradise Lost)

Read Bible fanfic (The Locked Tomb)

Read Bible fanfic (Inferno)

Or:

Watch Bible fanfic (Supernatural)

Watch Bible fanfic (Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss)

Watch Bible fanfic (Good Omens)

Your choice!

[tomicscomics]

08/30/2024

Kneel before God!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: Following from the last cartoon, the notorious child, "The Boy," plays reporter and interviews laypeople about when they choose to sit or kneel during the time after Communion. When he interviews the young lady in this cartoon, she explains that she kneels and prays until the Eucharist (specifically the bread that's become the Body of Christ) is returned to the tabernacle (usually a shiny box that sits behind the altar under the big crucifix at the head of a Catholic church). A lot of the parishioners at my local churches follow this tradition, as if waiting for Jesus to be seated before seating themselves. However, this young lady has a slightly confused understanding of tradition, transubstantiation, and tracheotomies (though that last one isn't explored in this cartoon).

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

okay, so: not Catholic here, I do belong to a liturgical church that does not strictly preach transubstantiation but doesn’t wholly disavow it either, intellectually I understand the concept of/justification for transubstantiation (not asking for where it comes from), but my question is: how do you make that…less…weird? like the idea of eating the ACTUAL Body and Blood of God, which also happens to be fully human? to be perfectly honest I’d almost certainly be more inclined to get on board with the idea if it didn’t feel so nauseatingly, cannibalism-y weird to me personally. sorry.

With love, anon, I might not be the best person to ask this question, because for me the visceral weirdness is a selling point.

Would any Catholic followers for whom that's not the case like to jump in?

[monk-core]

You're telling me this substantiation is trans?

Good for her

[entanglingbriars]

Fundamentally, I don't think it makes sense to call what (Catholics believe) happens when the Host is consecrated "transubstantiation" unless you accept Aristotelian metaphysics, which afaik most Catholics don't.

Early objections to Descartes' (and others') theory of atomism included that it was incompatible with the neo-Scholastic interpretation of the miracle of the Eucharist.

And now I'm wondering if the highly technical and almost entirely comprehensible neo-Scholastic idea of the Eucharist might conflict with the Church's teaching that it's a mystery that cannot be fully comprehended.

[hayleylovesjessica]

My partner is reading some article in The Atlantic about free bread in restaurants, and she LOLed and told me that, apparently, in Roman Catholic doctrine, gluten-free bread is unable to transubstantiate into the body of Christ. 🤣⛪🍞

[my-sacred-art]

Stage, film, and television actor Julie Newmar (American, born Julia Chalene Newmeyer, Aug. 16, 1933).

The Mass of Saint Gregory, [date?]. Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (Spanish, Jul. 18, 1600 - Feb. 20, 1667).

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

thanks @samanthasawyer1