non-Catholics and communion on the Camino

[Gene Silva]

Just to round out your message, Jeff, transubstantiation is both dogma and doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. First adopted in 1215 by the fourth Lateran Council, it was reconfirmed by the Council of Trent in 1551, reconfirmed repeatedly since then by church leaders and theologians, and affirmed again in Pope Paul VI's encyclical Mysterium Fidei as recently as 1965. The doctrine was declared as essential to the faith of the Orthodox Church in 1672. The dogma has been repudiated by the Church of England.

Best wishes.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Jacobs 
  To: GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:20 AM
  Subject: Re: non-Catholics and communion on the Camino


  Rosina -

  The correct spelling of transubstatiation is transubstantiation. If you will go to www.yahoo.com and type it into the search engine, you will get 27 references to it.

  Webster says: 

  "the miraculous change by which according to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma, the Eucharistic elements at their consecration become the body and blood of Christ  while keeping only the appearence of bread and wine".

  When I was preparing for confirmation in the Episcopal church many years ago I was taught, as I recall,  that there were 3 different dogmas re the Eucharist. The more protestant churches view it purley symbolic while the RC church adhears to the actual transmutation idea while the Episcopals believe somewhere between the two.

  Jeff

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  At 09:36 PM 4/2/01 -0400, you wrote:

    Although I have been a Catholic all my life, and a sincerely devout one, and
    have met the Pope, for whom I have the deepest affection and reverence, at
    least three times,  I do not know what "transubstatiation" is, nor do I
    believe that anyone in my circle of friends would know or has ever spoken
    about it.  I asked some of my relatives, all devout Catholics and highly
    educated, and they were just as befuddled as I.
     -I would ask my parish priest about it ,  but we always have so many other
    practical needs and things to talk about it that I am sure I'll not have an
    opportunity to do so.-  Is this  in the Gospel or is it a man-made concept?

    A simple definition/description would be appreciated.
    Thanks!

    Rosina

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