transubstantiation

[ UK /tɹænsəbstˌænʃɪˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
  2. the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist
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How To Use transubstantiation In A Sentence

  • Through transubstantiation, the bread and wine consumed by worshipers become the body and blood of Jesus when a priest, acting on Jesus’ behalf, speaks the words “This is my body” and “This is my blood” over them. Transubstantiation
  • His intention was to defend the Cartesian doctrine of material substance against the Peripatetic doctrine of substantial forms in his explication of transubstantiation.
  • Fully 85% believe that Jesus is God, 75% accept transubstantiation, and 60% believe that abortion is wrong.
  • They might well disagree with his Catholic specificities, like the curé's belief in transubstantiation, but they wouldn't want to take issue with them.
  • Stanley Matthews had his "bodyswerve", of course, a mysterious action that was always talked of in awestruck tones but never truly explained – the football equivalent of transubstantiation. Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks
  • But it seems that his belief is not an act of faith in the same sense that it is an act of faith to belief in the Incarnation, the Trinity, transubstantiation, or the Virgin Birth.
  • For example, a poll in the U.S.A. showed that only 18% of Catholics held to the correct teaching on transubstantiation; and it also found that a large per centage of the respondents didn't even know what transubstantiaion is. Slow posting continues till mid-August...
  • Patty, you are not yet ready for the transubstantiation of glauconitic flocculated basalt and therefore I can only explain to not explain. First Contact
  • The words of institution effected a transubstantiation by which the bread and wine were converted into the very body and blood of Christ broken and spilled on the cross on Calvary.
  • The doctrine of transubstantiation is based, in part, on the writings of Aristotle and Aquinas, who hold that material bodies are composed of accidents and substance.
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