TRANSUBSTANTIATION

The dcctr le | of transubstantistion is to Protestants | _ | most distinctive doctrine of the Roz 2 Catholic Church, as is evidenced by | Dy | prominence given to it in many acts t- | cciigions intolerance pa ed in Engts nl} after the Reformation. It is explaix d | in the following canon drawn up at | is} Council of Trent: " If any one shall ¢ J.) that in tho most ney secrament of | ul | Bucharist, there remains the substance ot! bread and wino together with the be ir and biood of our Lord Jesus Christ; a Sjshall deny that wonderful and singu | conversion of the whole substance of 1 @} bread into the body, and of the wh t | substance of the wine into the blo ‘ei the species of bread and wine alc remaiuing—which conversion the Cathe f | Chnrch most fittingly calls Transubstant =} tion—Ilct him be anathema.” Specic3,;,| this definition, means appearance, bei ta word derived from L. specio, I see. [s. 303]