‘Our Mother Earth’: Vatican publishes new book by Pope Francis on the environment
October 25, 2019
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Oct. 25, 2019 2:31 PM ET USA
From the cited article: "just as in the Eucharist the bread and the wine become Christ because they are bathed by the Spirit, the personal love of the Father." I guess the same could be said about the conception by Mary when the power of the Most High overshadowed her. "Bathing" by the Holy Ghost can bring about physical transformations: in the one case, conception of the child Jesus within the womb; in another case, the change in essence, substance, and nature of the Eucharistic species at Mass
