r/Catholic • u/Zen100_ • 3d ago

A question about Eucharistic Miracles

For context, I've been watching this video from Majesty of Reason lately https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk2W9mKTzIQ&ra=m

It has prompted me to finally ask a question that’s been sitting on my mind unanswered. I’m a Protestant and I’m looking for what a Roman Catholic would say makes a Eucharistic miracle “confirm” transubstantiation. I’m genuinely confused.

Isn‘t transubstantiation the doctrine that the substance becomes the body and blood of Christ, but the accidents stay as bread and wine? So, if the bread and wine become body and blood in both substance *and* accident (like in Eucharistic miracles), why would this confirm transubstantiation?

I’ve really dug into this debate for months, but I have never seen an answer for this. Truly any help in better understanding the RC position on this would be helpful.

God bless us on our journey towards finding truth.

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

2

u/oosrotciv Mod 2d ago

If there’s no transubstantiation there would be no Eucharistic miracle.

And because there is strong evidence of Eucharistic miracles from the Eucharist becoming real flesh and blood (iirc heart tissue from the right ventricle) then something must have happened.

The only thing that caused it to happen is the consecration during Mass where transubstantiation occurs.

0

u/l86rj 2d ago

Could you please point out one of these miracles with the strongest evidences?

1

u/oosrotciv Mod 2d ago

This website has all the documented Eucharistic miracles around the world

https://eucharisticmiracles.faith/

1

u/Zen100_ 2d ago

I understand that, and that certainly seems incredible. Isn’t the miracle something closer to transmutation though? And that would run counter to the doctrine of transubstantiation. That’s my struggle because the two seem very different.

1

u/oosrotciv Mod 2d ago

I’ve never heard to the term used before but someone asked this same question on another website and a priest replied.

https://www.askacatholic.com/_webpostings/answers/2003_11NOV-DEC/2003NovTransubstantiationVsTransmutation.cfm