795. But let us illustrate this with an example: Who cannot see that people caught up in Roman Catholicism have inquired into and investigated ways to enable them to establish this egregious falsity, that the bread and wine in the Eucharist should be divided, with the bread given to the laity and the wine to the clergy? This can be seen from simply reading the confirmation put together at the Council of Trent and established by papal bull, which says the following:
...that immediately after the consecration the true body and the true blood (of Jesus Christ), together with His soul and Divinity, are contained truly, really and substantially under the form of bread and wine, the body under the form of bread and the blood under the form of wine, by virtue of the words; but the very same body under the form of wine and the same blood under the form of bread and the soul under both, by virtue of that natural connection and concomitance whereby the parts of Christ the Lord are mutually united; and the Divinity on account of its admirable hypostatic union with His body and soul. That as much is contained under either form as under both. And that the whole of Christ is entirely present under the form of bread and under every part of that form, and the whole also under the form of wine and all its parts. 1
Moreover, that water is to be mixed with the wine. 2
These are their very words, which they themselves confess to be contrary to the import of the Lord's words.
Who possessing sound judgment does not see that real truths are there turned upside down and converted into falsities by their reasonings, which the upright in heart cannot but abominate?
Why is this? Is it not solely for the sake of their masses, which they call propitiatory sacrifices, most holy and pure, with nothing but what is holy in them - masses by which they inspire a sense of holiness in people's bodily senses, and at the same time the darkness of night in everything having to do with faith and spiritual life - and this in order to achieve in that darkness dominion and material gain, and to implant the idea of their ministers as being full of the Lord, and having the Lord in them. And to keep themselves from wearying, they take the wine, and so as not to become inebriated, they mix it with water.
Fusnotat:
1. The Council of Trent, Session XIII, October 11, 1551: Chapter III: The Excellence of the Most Holy Eucharist over the Other Sacraments.
2. The Council of Trent, Session XXII, September 17, 1562: Chapter VII: The Mixture of Water with Wine in the Offering of the Chalice.
