Yes. The substance changes but the accidents (physical reality) remains the same. Touch, smell, taste, etc does not change. WHAT IT IS changes.
Read John 6. He made himself abundantly clear about eating his body and drinking his blood. It was NOT symbolic.
I reject John 6 as eucharistic. These are words about faith and trust in Jesus for spiritual food which eventually find their fulfillment in the Lord's Supper but aren't directly talking about it.
The physical bread turns into the non-physical substance flesh of Christ?
The substance changes, the physical (accidents) remain the same. It's the doctrine of Transubstantiation borrowed from Aristotelian philosophy.
So, the physical bread turns into the non-physical flesh of Christ?
No. Christ is present under the appearance of bread and wine.
So what do you understand? Write one statement concerning this mystery that you do understand.
Yes, the Church says it is a mystery. It's better to consider it as a spiritual transformation and a mystery that simply a "symbol" of the body and blood of our Lord. We consider this based on the Gospel which affirms that "this IS my flesh and blood," not "This is a symbol/representation of my blood. I am in the camp that believes that The Gospel is the written word of God himself.
There is no scientific measurable evidence that it happens at all. That's how they call it a mystery.
Exactly, there is only spiritual evidence which members of the Church that Christ established with his Apostles with St Peter as The Rock would spread through the entire world. Science is great for things like medical treatment, technology, and mathematics etc. but as a member of the original body of Christ we find useless as it relates to spiritual matters.
