Eucharist

"Who is your daddy, and what does he do?"
-Believe it or not, this sort of relates to the Eucharist.
-Who is God, and how does he show his Fatherhood to us?
-In scripture, God is love. How does God show that love to us?
 Eucharist is a sacrament
-Sacrament: a visible sign of God's invisible grace.
   -We can't see God, but he left us visible signs of him.
   -"Reality imbued with the hidden presence of God."
   -Sacramentality: Everything in creation has the potential to show God's glory, because imbued in it is goodness itself.
   -In the timeline of our lives, Sacraments are times when God physically enters in a real tangible, visible way.

The Eucharist is not just bread and wine. Matthew 26:26-28.
   -He said this is my body and blood, not this is a symbol of my body and blood.
   -1 Corinthians 11:23-27
     -It's not just bread, and it's not just wine. It must be cared for with great reverence.
     -Transubstantiation: Thomas Aquinas - the substance transforms into the Body and Blood of Christ. The accidents remain the same, but the reality has changed.
       -There is substance (essence/being/reality/what's at the heart), and then there are accidents (physical nature/tangible features)
     -How does this happen? Priest says the Epiclesus. But nobody knows when it happens or how it happens, but only that the Holy Spirit makes it happen.
       -It's a mystery. Are we okay with that mystery?
     -Consubstantiation: body and blood coexist with bread and wine.