make in the flesh we make by the faithfulness of him who loved us and gave himself for us.’ ‘We offer … and yet it is not our offering. It is Christ’s.’ This is what, in intention at least, Rome seeks to say in the Mass. ‘It is bread … and yet suddenly we know it is not bread. It is Christ!’ There is an evangelical intention. But from our Reformed point of view the old medieval doctrine of transubstantiation said it in the wrong way. It made the moment of conversio what takes place in the elements,