Knights of the Word

Jesus was speaking both physically and spiritually about this. We, as people of the world, understand what we can see, taste, and touch. This is real to us. Things of the spirit we deny their existence because we cannot see or touch the world of the spirit. Our minds deny its reality, make up excuses, and fail to understand that the world of the spirit is more real than our reality. Every physical object has a spiritual property to it. Thus, we can bless this or curse that. A handkerchief can heal, or a tassel at the bottom of Jesus's clothes. Jesus created the prayer to bless the bread and wine to become body and blood. This spiritual blessing is more true than the physical. So, when we believe we are taking Jesus into us we are. Think of it as an altar call, accepting Jesus's spirit into our bodies, filling the temple which we are called to be. We should do this daily, hourly, and even all the time to keep our spirits filled with the presence of God. To say the prayer of the Mass, the priest and the crowd is asking Jesus to send His Holy Spirit upon the bread and wine, making it the body and the blood, by spiritual indwelling, and we receive it in faith asking God to come into us granting permission for Him to indwell our bodies. You need both the prayer and the faith together or it will fail to work.