| Show I THE EUChARIST on the Presence of ITIoiisiffUor Capel 01 tlc Christ the Sacrament The announcement that Monsignor Capel would treat of the eucharist in his discourseforlast evening attracted a congregation con-gregation of between 4000 and 5000 people peo-ple to St Ignatius Church and still many to admittance The were unable gain admiance aisles and chhncel were packed and the through the vestibule to crowd extended througl vestbule he outer doors The prelude t the sermon ser-mon was the devotion of The Stations of the Cross and Rosary performed by Father Prelatto and at its conclusion Ptelato entered the reading desk ironsignorCapelentered clad in the full robe of his office He announced an-nounced as his text The Real Presence nouced of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and opened with the statement that that doc trine constitutes the key to the stability of he Catholic Church I church the reverend gentleman went on the Catuo lies do not bow to the altar or any representation repre-sentation that may be there but t the sentton of Christ and nota creation presence Ghrst tit of the imagination God had not put imaginaton Go students to of his into the power of any hi int his and no professor understand undertnd presence understtnd Christian religion can undertnd of the Chrstian c relgon although all the doctrine of the Trinity alhough and believe it I the morning bread wine is placed on the altar and at a given moment of consecration the bread becomes be-comes in substance the body of Christ and the wine his precious blood To the taste and touch there is 410 external change it is still bread and wine in its qualities but in substance it is the body and blood of Christ No one knows what the substance is but it is entirely different from quality There i no deception of the eye and taste which dictate qualities but the substance is changed when man is brought in contact with the properties of these things When Christarose from the dead and put on the garb of immortality im-mortality he was imt changed into a spirit but the change in substance gave him a new guise and it was not a miracle for him to enter the temple while the l doors were still shut though it would have been before the resurrection The people certainly expected to be given the real flesh of Christ and his real blood They took His words in a literal sense and when He had created this impression He kept it up by the solemn assertion that unless they ate of His flesh and blood they should not have life Thus the risen body of the Lord shrouded by the properties of bread and wine is surely present in the sacrament His speech was probably figurative but when it was accepted literally Christ continued to be literal and this more than anything else conclusively demonstrates that the bread and wine of the sacrament are His 27 flesh and blood Alta California July I |
