“Based on this, we will move on to the analysis of the recently emerged heresy that rejects the transubstantiation of the Holy Gifts. Its essence lies in the fact that during the Sacrament of the Eucharist no substantial change supposedly occurs, but due to the imaginary…
…consubstantiality of the entire material world, bread and wine are united with the Divine, completely identical to the union of two natures - divine and human - in Christ. The following argument is presented to us: just as red-hot iron becomes one with fire, but at the same…
…time the natural properties of iron are not abolished, no change in the “substance” of iron occurs, only the manner of its existence changes, likewise the Eucharistic Bread, being united with the Divine, does not lose its essence, but acquires a new mode of existence, and…
…becomes the Bread of Heaven, the Body of God Himself. Just as in the Incarnation the humanity of the LORD was hypostaticized, in the same way the Eucharistic bread and wine become hypostatic, that is, received into the hypostasis of God the Word, in Whom they begin to exist…
…in unfused and inseparable unity with His Divinity, are permeated with uncreated grace, thereby becoming the true Body and the Blood of Christ. This is a non-Orthodox teaching that directly and unequivocally contradicts Holy Scripture (Matt. 26:26–28; Mark 14:22–24; …
…Luke 22:19–20; John 6:35–65; 1 Cor. 10:16– 17; 11, 23–32), nevertheless, is presented by modernists as the common voice of the Fathers of the Eastern Church, lost only during the “Latin captivity.” -Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev, The Eucharist: Christ’s Humanity or Deified Food?
