he lifts them up, as it were, out of the setting of their normal existence into a new order; even if, from a purely physical point of view, they remain the same, they have become profoundly different.”190 Here, in fact, we can see an eschatological theme in transubstantiation, an anticipation of Christ as all in all, and we are reminded of what we heard earlier from Gustave Martelet—namely, that “transubstantiation is not an isolated mystery” but “the sacramental emergence” of the mystery that is,
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