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What difference does it make if the bread and wine turn into the Body and Blood of Christ and we don't?

What happens in Vegas ends up all over the world news.

Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN

Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence

Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away!

Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances in nature better symbolize unity than bread and wine. As bread is made from a multiplicity of grains of wheat, and wine is made from a multiplicity of grapes, so the many who believe are one in Christ. Second, no two substances in nature have to suffer more to become what they are than bread and wine. Wheat has to pass through the rigors of winter, be ground beneath the Calvary of a mill, and then subjected to purging fire before it can become bread. Grapes in their turn must be subjected to the Gethsemane of a wine press and have their life crushed from them to become wine. Thus, do they symbolize the Passion and Sufferings of Christ, and the condition of Salvation, for Our Lord said unless we die to ourselves we cannot live in Him. A third reason is that there are no two substances in nature which have more traditionally nourished man than bread and wine. In bringing these elements to the altar, men are equivalently bringing themselves. When bread and wine are taken or consumed, they are changed into man's body and blood. But when He took bread and wine, He changed them into Himself.

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

You see, I cannot share my space with them. Not only am I severely claustrophobic but I abhor the mass. In general, I do not like people very much. Those I cannot sand are the average ones that eat with their hands out of plastic plates and travel in buses to work. I am horrified of them. " Mr. Wesley

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter.

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

A short reign does not spare the masses.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!