transubstantiation
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Transubstantiation, a dogma of the Holy Roman Church, is the belief that the bread at mass does actually become the Body of Jesus Christ.
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An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered it with white, red, green, yellow chalk marks demonstrating the meaning of the Trinity, Original Sin, Transubstantiation, Incarnation.
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This implies the dogma of Transubstantiation, meaning that Christ comes physically into the bread and wine.
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He discourses on the evidence of God’s love to be found in this mystery of the altar; and then refutes objections as to the manner of the Divine Presence, expressly teaching Transubstantiation.
From A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 by Scully, Vincent
If there was one doctrine upon which the supremacy of the Medi�val Church rested, it was the doctrine of Transubstantiation.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard