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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jeffjjaTDS.NET href="mailto:jeffjjaTDS.NET">Jeff Jacobs</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu
href="mailto:GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu">GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: non-Catholics and communion
on the Camino</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=3>Rosina -<BR><BR>The correct spelling of
transubstatiation is transubsta</FONT><FONT color=#ff0000 size=3>n</FONT><FONT
size=3>tiation. If you will go to <A href="http://www.yahoo.com"
eudora="autourl">www.yahoo.com</A> and type it into the search engine, you
will get 27 references to it.<BR><BR>Webster says: <BR><BR>"the miraculous
change by which according to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma, the
Eucharistic elements at their consecration </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
size=3><B><U>become</FONT></B></U><FONT size=3> the body and blood of
Christ while keeping only the appearence of bread and wine".<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Jeff<BR><BR>=====<BR><BR>At 09:36 PM 4/2/01
-0400, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">Although I have been a Catholic all my life,
and a sincerely devout one, and<BR>have met the Pope, for whom I have the
deepest affection and reverence, at<BR>least three times, I do not
know what "transubstatiation" is, nor do I<BR>believe that anyone in my
circle of friends would know or has ever spoken<BR>about it. I asked
some of my relatives, all devout Catholics and highly<BR>educated, and they
were just as befuddled as I.<BR> -I would ask my parish priest about it
, but we always have so many other<BR>practical needs and things to
talk about it that I am sure I'll not have an<BR>opportunity to do
so.- Is this in the Gospel or is it a man-made concept?<BR><BR>A
simple definition/description would be
appreciated.<BR>Thanks!<BR><BR>Rosina<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>