2007-12-10 11:25:19 · 21 answers · asked by Joe Thing 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
During the Consecration
2007-12-10 11:30:51 · answer #1 · answered by Tasha 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are several opinions. Most well known is the idea that it occurs when the priest says "This is my body." But many theologians believe it occurs when the priest invites the Holy Spirit to come upon the gifts at the beginning of the Eucharistic Prayer (after the "Holy, Holy, Holy" prayer). And there are those that say it is not a particular chronological moment but occurs throughout the Eucharistic Prayer, from the invocation to the doxology.
2007-12-10 11:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"It is the consecration that actualizes Christ's presence. The consecration refers to the words of our Lord when He instituted the Blessed Sacrament the night before He died. Those words are found in 1 Corinthians and in Matthew, Mark and Luke. In a real sense the mass only really starts at this point since only with His words spoken by the priest is Christ made present. A big word that needs to be reinstated in our Catechetical instructions is "Transubstantiation". It is a big word but it simply means that after the priest speaks the words: "This is My Body" and "This is My Blood" that the appearances of bread and wine remains but in reality Christ is present in His Body, Blood and Soul and Divinity. Since our Lord and God is present, it is appropriate, for a moment, adore Him as the priest elevates the Host and the Chalice. The traditional act of adoration is to look upon the Body and Blood of Christ and confess: "My Lord and My God, Thee I adore, Help me to love Thee more and more."
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
2007-12-10 11:33:03 · answer #3 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Profound question. The Roman teaching is that it "happens" at the words of institution "Hoc est enim Corpus Meum" ("This is My Body"). The Eastern Orthodox say it "happens" at the "epiklesis" - or, the calling down of the Holy Spirit upon the elements of bread and wine.
We Anglicans are not so "specific"...we believe that it is the entirety of the Mass, INCLUDING the epiklesis and the necessary words of institution...both are equally important and necessary.
2007-12-10 11:30:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Peace.....there is a point during the consecration where the priest says referring to the bread and wine, "they WILL BECOME" the body and blood of Christ.....in the Orthodox Church, when the priest says, after the consecration, "Amen, Amen, Amen" (three times) then IT IS DONE/COMPLETED....."orthros"
2007-12-10 12:03:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the priest raises the host and proclaims "This is the body of Christ"
There's even a word for IT.
It's called transubstantiation.
Im not sure of the spelling.
2007-12-10 11:36:26 · answer #6 · answered by capekicks 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The priest holds up the host and says,"This is the body of Christ".
2007-12-10 11:29:15 · answer #7 · answered by techtwosue 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
to those outside the church it is all symbolic. To those in the church I believe honestly it is only when you partake of the bread and believe it is the body that it becomes the body....I had a priest tell me once that prayer is only as good as your intent... you can repeat words but that doesn't mean you are praying... so I think there is an element of faith behind this...
additionally... don't you find it's mildly cannibalistic to eat the flesh of Christ...
2007-12-10 11:30:08 · answer #8 · answered by maritimegypsy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
most got it wrong, when the priest concecrates the bread and wine using the same words of Christ, acting in persono, saying "this is my body" "this is my blood"
2007-12-10 11:31:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It becomes His Body when the priest says the words, "This is my body..."
2007-12-12 09:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋