My interpretation of transubstantiation is that it's the ritual act of eating that transfers the Jesus-ness from the bread and wine to the soul of the recipient Once you've made the good faith effort to chew and swallow it, the virtue is now inside you and not the molecules
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Yeah but my point was the virtue has to leave the bread at some point or you'd have to say a prayer if someone took communion and then threw up
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Anyway the thing is while in theory, sure, God can transubstantiate anything, the Catholics are the ones who are the most sticklers about what you can and can't use for the Eucharist in practice
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There's a whole thing about how they won't accommodate celiacs because when Jesus said bread he meant bread made of wheat and if it doesn't have wheat flour in it then it's not "bread" for this purpose Similarly the wine has to be made of grapes ("the fruit of the vine")
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When extreme teetotalism became an identity thing for US Protestants they started using grape juice In fact Dr. Welch of Welch's Grape Juice invented pasteurized grape juice for this purpose, as a loophole (it's the same as wine but we killed the yeast in it)
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Catholics consider this cheating though and you have to use real wine (Meanwhile the Mormons straight up replaced the wine in their communion with water)
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But yeah the concept of transubstantiation and that in theory anything can be the Body and Blood of Christ if you need it to be is powerful
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In Vampire: the Masquerade there's a thing about vampires whose Christian faith is so strong they're "Transubstantiationists", they survive by drinking the wine from the Eucharist because they *believe* it to be blood (The modern Camarilla considers this to be a myth)
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