HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Transubstantiation, Fourth Council Of The Lateran, Salimbene Di Adam
23 Nov 2020
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Medieval sermons also focused increasingly on christ"s humanity; saints" lives described more episodes of saints encountering the tender-hearted jesus in mystical visions. New devotional rites like the stations of the cross: a lenten service during which believers circulate past paintings and statuary depicting the events of christ"s passion focused attention on the human suffering he endured. the mass itself changed. Through the early centuries of the church, parishioners themselves seldom ate the bread or drank the wine of the mass; they only witnessed their elevation and transubstantiation into jesus" body and blood. Usually only the priests conducting the ceremony partook of the sacraments. But by the thirteenth century the common people themselves began to consume them, bringing home the idea that christ so loves mankind that he makes himself available to all in this most intimate and tangible of ways. This refocusing of his personality was, like the very church reform it was a late aspect of, a popular demand.
