The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""334 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.a revealed truth because it is incomprehensible, contains in itself the seeds of dissolution, and will endin rationalism.Is not everything around us a mystery ? Are we not a mystery to ourselves ? Explainto me how the blood circulates in your veins ;howthe soul animates and permeates the whole body;how the hand moves at the will of the soul. Explain to me the mystery of life and death.Is not the Scripture full of incomprehensible mysteries ? Do you not believe in the Trinity, a mysterynot only above, but apparently contrary to, reason ?Do you not admit the Incarnation, that the helpless infant in Bethlehem was God? I understandwhy nationalists, who admit nothing above their reason, reject the Keal Presence but that Bible Chris;tians should reject it, is to me incomprehensible.But do those who reject the Catholic interpretation, explain this text to their own satisfaction :This is My body, etc. ? Alas ! here their burdenbegins. Only a few years after the early Reformershad rejected the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist,no fewer than one hundred meanings were given tothese words: "This is My body."It is far easier todestroy than to rebuild.Let me now offer you some additional reasons infavor of the Catholic or literal sense.According toa common rule observed in the interpretation of theHoly Scripture, we must always take the wordsin their literal signification, unless we have somespecial reason which obliges us to accept them in a