[lit-ideas] Geary: Transubstantiation Made Easy
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The bread and the wine are consecrated by the [literate, performative] words
‘This is my body,’ ‘This is my blood’.
Consecration "He consecratis the trew body & blud of Jesus Christ, nocht be
the vertew of ony mannis word, but be the vertew and powar of Gods word."
"Priests alone can consecrate". It is necessary the priest should call down
His
very body crucified upon the cross into the bread; which must be
transubstantiated thereinto, or consubstantiated therewith. (Book of Common
Prayer)
Geary thinks he is being intelligent (a prodigy) when he writes:
>As early as [I was] 5 [years old] they [my fathers] were talking essence at
me. The essence of bread is changed -- I'm sorry, transubstantiated -- into
the essence of God.
Oddly, I got it all clear from the Fathers.
It's two things that get transubstantiated:
Jesus Christ's BODY ------ (soma) --> becomes BREAD (and vice
versa)
Jesus Christ's BLOOD ---- (hema) --> becomes WINE (and vice
versa)
No need to transubstantiate these two edible elements into the essence of
_God_.
But if that's what Geary wants (essence) that's what he gets. There are five
essences:
WIND
FIRE WATER
STONE
In the middle is the quintessence (fifth essence). Luca di Ghiambardella
argued that it was a combination of the four essences, with a sprinkling of
nutmeg, but there are other recipes.
Cheers,
J. L.
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quintessence. [a. F. quintessence, quinte essence (14th c.), or ad. med.L.
quinta essentia ‘fifth essence’. The ‘fifth essence’ supposed to be the
'substance' of which the heavenly bodies were composed, and to be actually
latent
in *all* things, the extraction of it by distillation c1430 _LYDG._
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-l2.html#lydg)
Min.
Poems (Percy Soc.) 51 Aurum potabile..In quyntencense, best restauracioun.
Consecrate: Used as the proper word for the action whereby the bread and
wine receive their sacramental character in the Eucharist. (Here the notion
varies according to the doctrine held as to the nature of the sacrament.)
1553 _TINDALE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-t2.html#tindale)
Supper of Lorde 39
"It is manifest that Christ consecrated no bread."
1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion, If the consecrated bread or wine be all
spent before all have communicated, the Priest is to consecrate more.
1885 Catholic Dict. 311/2 The bread and the wine are consecrated by the
[literate, performative] words ‘This is my body,’ ‘This is my blood’.
b. used proleptically of the result.
c1500 Doctr. Gd. Servaunts in 5 Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 3 Syth they
consecrate our God omnipotent. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 231b, How
often
so euer you consecrate my body and my blode, do it in the remembraunce of me.
1552 _ABP. HAMILTON_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-h.html#abp-hamilton)
Catech. 205 He consecratis the trew body &
blud of Jesus Christ, nocht be the vertew of ony mannis word, but be the
vertew
and powar of Gods word.
c. absol.
1534 _MORE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-m4.html#more)
On the Passion Wks. 1308/1 Therfore was it [the Paschall lambe]
eaten with vnleauened breade. And so consequentlye Christe dydde consecrate
in vnleauened breade. 1885 Catholic Dict. 317/1 The First General Council
takes for granted that priests alone can consecrate.
[c1450: see prec.] 1533 _TINDALE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-t2.html#tindale)
Supper of Lord Biij, The wyne
transsubstanciated into his bloud. 1651 _C. CARTWRIGHT_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-c.html#c-cartwright)
Cert. Relig. I. 122
After Consecration there is no longer the substance of Bread, but that the
Bread is transubstantiated, and turned into the substance of Christs Body.
a1774 _TUCKER_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-t2.html#tucker)
Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 483 It is necessary the priest should call
down His very body crucified upon the cross into the bread; which must be
transubstantiated thereinto, or consubstantiated therewith. a1819 G. HILL
Lect. Div. (1821) III. 362 The practice of partaking in private of a small
portion of what the priest has thus transubstantiated.
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