And I say no, no, unfortunately that is not true. However, the Church has solemnly defined the scriptural words, This is my body and this is my blood . They are to be taken literally. Our Lord is really present, body and blood, soul and divinity, under the remaining appearances of bread and wine. That is not an expression of common sense.
Faith is needed to believe that.
Writing 800 or more years after that, Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote in the hymn, visus, tactus gustus fallitur our sight, our taste and our sense of touch are all deceived in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. We speak of the Real Presence of Christ in the consecrated species. It is superior to the presence of God in a priest, in nature, or even in the Scriptures. None of these are God or become God, although in a variety of ways they can be described as godly. Let us then pray this morning a prayer of thanks for the gift of Christian faith, let us pray a prayer of thanks for the traditional Christian teaching about the Real Presence and let us come to Communion with added reverence and let us pray more frequently before the Blessed Sacrament.