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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:44:27 EST
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- From: RASCH@C-H.BWH.HARVARD.EDU
- Subject: Re: The Real Presence
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- > Now, what remains is the appearance of bread. The
- > appearance would include what appears to our senses either
- > aided or unaided. What remains has the appearance of
- > bread to the naked eye, to the nose, through a microscope,
- > through an electron microscope, etc. etc.
- > Some people might be tempted to say "if it looks like,
- > bread, smells like bread, and in everyway acts like bread
- > then it is bread"....
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- I can't resist the old saw about hosts: "When one receives Communion
- one makes two acts of faith - first that it is really the Body of Christ,
- second that it is really bread".
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- Being Anglican myself, 'Real Presence' to me means that the sacrament is
- *not* symbolic; Christ is present in the sacrament, the 'outward and material
- sign of an inward and spiritual grace '; I don't treat the bread
- and wine as if they were merely bread and wine; but I don't worry too much
- about the mechanics. So for me, receiving the sacrament in a Roman Catholic
- Church would be the same as receiving it in my own church.
-
- Joan Rasch internet Rasch@c-h.bwh.harvard.edu
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- PS Thanks to all who sent messages about how to sign on to this conference.
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