21 December 2019
Word of the Day: Species
SPECIES. Appearances, especially those of bread and wine, after the
Eucharistic consecration. The term "species" is used by the Council
of Trent (Denzinger 1652) to identify the accidents, i.e., the size, weight,
color, resistance, taste, and odor of bread, which remain exactly the same after
transubstantiation. They are not mere appearances as though these physical properties
were unreal. But they are appearances because after the consecration they lack
any substance that underlies them or in which they inhere.
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