Transubstantiation

Whatever our beliefs are, religion is the component of any human culture that, jointly with knowledge, love, art and nature, can appease our desperate suffering...
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Whatever our beliefs are, religion is the component of any human culture that, jointly with knowledge, love, art and nature, can appease our desperate suffering to find the meaning of our lifes. So, any photographer interested in capturing human life and culture, has to learn how to capture the essence of the temples and the spirit of the religious rites.
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The consecration of the bread is the most important moment of the Catholic mass ceremony. It is the moment when the bread transubstantiates into the body of Christ. Transubstantiation is the change whereby, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, the bread and the wine used in the sacrament of the Eucharist become, not simbolically, but in actual reality the body and blood of Christ. Since nobody knows exactly what the matter is in the extreme, the intelectual humility that any of us with this Catholic Faith have to have in order to accept the mystery of the transubstantiation is, in some extent, analog to the intelectual humility that we have to have for accepting the world as it is, without understanding exactly what the matter, and the space, and the time, and the energy are in the extreme, with the hope that we will understand it in the future. In any event, this part of the Catholic ceremony is so important and sacred that a photographer can not 'take his time' for shooting photos during that moment... When I took this photo, I was kneeling in the second pew when I noticed that the eyes of the figure of Jesus Christ were exactly aligned with the sacred host, so I inmediately and very quickly took the camera and shot (I hope that also discretely!).
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