to transubstantiate

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• The doctrine of the Eucharist teaches that the substance of the bread is transubstantiated at the moment of consecration.

• When she saw the Host being transubstantiated into Christ's human body, it occurred to her with new force that Christ must also have been born in the human fashion with its accompanying turpitudo that women produce during childbirth.

  Academic text (2006)

• What if body and blood as pain and suffering is being converted transubstantiated into bread and wine?

• Base metal is not merely reduced to prime matter; rather, it is reduced in order to be transubstantiated into something superior: gold.

  Academic text (1990)

• In the Eucharist, food is transubstantiated into a linguistic sign.

  Academic text (1992)

• But then when the the pastor puts his finger on it, it transubstantiates into Jesus's literal body, his literal body.

• While we would never go so far as to argue that Paul saw the sexual members of the baptized as "transubstantiated" into Christ's own, he clearly had a sacramental sense of sexual union that we have had the courage to carry only into married sexuality.

  Academic text (1994)

• This expectation is reasonable when altarpieces are viewed in their primary context and function as visual backdrops for the liturgy, the dramatic climax of which is the elevation of the transubstantiated host.

  Academic text (2005)

• In Christian theology, during the mass, the priest prays for the bread and wine to be transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ.

• During Communion, believers believe that the elements are transubstantiated to provide spiritual nourishment.

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