Well, welcome back to Catalonia. It's live. I'm sci-kill at your host Jimmy Aiken is our guests. It's open form, but it's an internet open forum today because it's Edgar's wedding and Edgar and for me at the break. I will not be doing the electric slide. We have some sort of Mexican.

Sort of Mexican line dancing we'll be doing. So I got a I got a brush up on that. I'm have to watch some YouTube's and figure out what what the steps are.

Macarena will be one of them. Oh, are we going to do will we be doing the Macarena? He does this wife is picking all that. Yeah, are we doing the he's he got a very confused look on his face. All right. Hey, Macarena.

Well, in any case, we're here now to do an internet open forum. Jimmy, of course, senior apologists here at Cathacan's was author of a whole bunch of things, including a daily defense, which is now in podcast form. You can get it by going to where does he get where do you go for a daily defense.

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Catholic answers podcast.com. Thanks Edgar.

And so I won't be giving out the phone number because all these questions have already come to us from the internet.

And before we get to the first new question, I wanted to add something to the question of Tony's that we answered at the end of last hour. Tony was asking in general terms about about advice for people who you know need to deal with uncertainty.

I was giving the general advice that risk is just part of life. It's the way God designed things. And so we need to get to a position where we're okay with risk and we're okay with failure and we realize God understands failure. He knows we have limited resources and including cognitive ones.

So if we're making decisions, we've only got limited information and we need to make a practical decision. We can't be paralyzed by fear.

So the thing to do is just, you know, make the best decision you can and trust God and he'll understand if you make the wrong one. So, you know, he's merciful. Don't don't worry about it. Don't be paralyzed.

Tony also asked, he mentioned a specific thing that some people can get scrupulous about, which is small particles of the sacred host on your hands or elsewhere.

And I had something I wanted to say about that because it's a little more specialized than general principles about dealing with risk.

So, you know, one of the things that is is quite well received in Catholic thought is that the real presence ceases when the consecrated elements become corrupt.

So, and this is you'll find this in every book on sacramental theology. You'll find it in official church documents that, for example, there was a document that the congregation for the document of the faith put out in the late 60s or early 70s on fragments of the host.

And they made the point that the real presence remains as long as the appearance of bread remains.

So, so if it looks like if you would look at something and say, oh, that's a piece of unleavened bread.

Well, then it's got the real presence if it's previously been consecrated.

But if you look at something and you wouldn't, what is that? It's not obvious it's a piece of bread anymore because it's so small that it's not going to have the real presence.

And this is something that, you know, I mean, that's that's an unofficial church teaching document, you know, that's from the congregation for the doctrine of the faith was approved by the pope.

So, this is part of church teaching that if the host has corrupted in such a way that it's such a small particle that it's no longer identifiable as bread, then it no longer has the real presence.

And this is something you'll also, this is not some newfangled thing you'll also find Aquinas saying exactly the same thing 800 years ago.

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