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Editor’s Note: The Catholic Faith teaches that at the words of a validly ordained priest, over the Eucharistic offerings of true bread, made from wheat, and true wine, made from the grapes of the vine, the substance of the bread and the substance of the wine are transubstantiated, and become truly, really and substantially the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The key word, here, used by the Catholic Church for the last 1000 years, is, of course, “transubstantiated”, which means the whole, real, substantial being of each, the bread and the wine, are replaced with the whole, real, and substantial being of Christ Jesus’ Most Blessed Humanity: a one-for-one, complete change (exchange or replacement) of substance, in which nothing of the former remains, except in appearances.
Note, not even the appearances remain, because the appearances of bread or wine, which are natural consequences of the presence of their respective substances are no longer, after the consecration; but Christ Jesus, the Eternal Son of God, by His Divine Power alone, hides the Glory of His Entire Person, Divine and Human Nature, under what appears to be the very self-same appearances, of the former substances, but now existing solely by His Divine Power and not inhering in His Humanity or Divinity.
However, Cardinal Prevost evidently does not believe this. Because, just as He blasphemed the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday, implying that He is some sort of demiurge at the service of the Grand Orient’s Kalergi plan of open borders and racial mixing, so now on the transferred Feast of Corpus Christi, on the Sunday after Corpus Christi (Thursday), as Catholic News Agency reports, above:
The Augustinian pope also quoted St. Augustine’s description of the Eucharist as “bread that restores and does not run short; bread that can be eaten but not exhausted,” observing that the Eucharist “in fact, is the true, real, and substantial presence of the Savior, who transforms bread into himself in order to transform us into himself.”
It might sound cute to say, “transform”, but it is actually heretical, since “transform” means to change the appearances or form of a thing, and nothing else, leaving its material or physical elements, only arranged differently.
If at the consecration, the Eucharist offerings “transformed” into the Body and Blood of Jesus, then there would be one Body in Heaven, and another body on Earth, just as if a sample of your flesh was taken and cloned in a lab, your true body would remain with you, but another body identical would be in the lab. The body which is yours, when touched causes your person to be touched and your soul to be touched. But the body in the laboratory, when touched, does not cause your person, body or soul to be touched.
Ironcially, as all heretics end up doing, they profess the same heresy that they denied just moments before, when Cardinal Prevost said of the wondrous miracle wrought by Christ in the multiplication of loaves and fishes:
Jesus’ gesture of breaking the bread, the pope explained, “is not some complicated magical rite; they simply show his gratitude to the Father, his filial prayer and the fraternal communion sustained by the Holy Spirit.”
But the theory of transformationism, is precisely this, a theory of magical alteration of the thing before us, into a new something else, which is not part of anything else.
Note: that the miracle Christs worked when He multiplied loaves and fishes was not a transformation nor a transubstantiaion either, but a work which only the Creator can do, of creating in a sequence of time as many loaves of bread and dried fish as were taken out of the basket: there is absolutely no philosophical or scientific or angelic explanation possible of this miracle, since it goes beyond all laws of nature and physics.
The Church has never taught, “transformation”. In fact, the the Church has condemned since the time of the Council of Trent, all other theories or explanations of the wondrous and miraculous change which takes place at Mass.
As for the rest of Cardinal Prevost’s remarks, they are completely able to be read in the light of a Modernist who does not believe God exists, or of a Catholic, as they are a sophisticated example of someone trained in ambiguity. Indeed, he quotes Saint Augustine, who lived 1000 years before Trent, and thus was completely unaware of the proper terminology to describe the miracle of the Eucharist. In this way, Prevost can teach heresy under the cloak of citing a Father of the Church. Very Devious.
Yet, it remains most disturbing, that on each High Feast Day, Prevost strives to perpetrate some sort of outrage like blasphemy or heresy. It is as if he has a Satanic intent to offend God on these days and contradict the Catholic Faith point by point.