The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

THE HOLY EUCHARIST. 333text is in itself obscure and ambiguous? By110means; but simply because they do not comprehend how God could perform so stupendous a miracle as to give His body and blood for our spiritualnourishment.Is, then, the power or the mercy of God to bemeasured by the narrow rule of the human understanding? Is the Almighty not permitted to doanything except what we can sanction by our rea-Bon ? Is a thing to be declared impossible, becausewe cannot see its possibility ?Has not God created the heavens and the earthout of nothing, by the fiat of His word? What aismystery this ! Does He not hold this world inthe midst of space? Does He not transform thetiny blade into nutritious ?grain Did He not feedupwards of five thousand persons with five loavesand two fishes? What a mystery! Did He notrain down manna from heaven for forty years,to feed the children of Israel in the desert? DidHe not change rivers into blood in Egypt, and waterinto wine at the wedding of Cana ? Does He notdaily make devout souls the tabernacles of the HolyGhost ? And shall we have the hardihood to deny,in spite of our Lord s plain declaration, that God,who works these wonders, is able to change breadand wine into His body and blood for the food ofour souls ?You tell me it is a mystery above your comprehension. A mystery, indeed. A religion that rejects