Speaking properly: Neil Morgan on shaping experience

‘Quakers have been struggling with this for centuries.’

'Life, if you think about it – ordinary life – is saturated with the miraculous and the extraordinary.' | Photo: by Ben White on Unsplash

To a Catholic, the eucharist is a supernatural event. Transubstantiation places the host in a sacred – yet at the same time physical – space. Mistreatment of a consecrated host is one of the gravest forms of sacrilege. It means immediate excommunication.

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