Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: conan@jell-o.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: help needed Message-ID:Date: 24 Sep 89 20:43:29 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Math Dept., UC Berkeley Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article daemon@garage.att.com (Joseph H. Buehler) writes: >The other thing to keep in mind is that when the accidents are modified >so that they are no longer those of bread or wine, the Real Presence >ends. Our Lord is only substantially present for about 15 minutes after ^^^^^^^^^^ >Holy Communion. After that, there's nothing but whatever acid turns >bread into. (This is presumably why water and wine get poured over the >priest's fingers after Communion, during the ablutions. They dissolve >any particles that may be on his fingers.) I think a technical correction is in order here. If this is the case, why are consecrated hosts reserved and adored as the body of Christ? This sounds more like a description of Luther's doctrine of Consubstantiation than of Catholic Transubstantiation. Yours In Christ, David Cruz-Uribe, SFO [I think he's referring to hosts that are eaten. I'm reasonably sure that Joe accepts the practice of the reserved sacrament. --clh]