Monday, January 1, 2024

"Concomitance" in Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia

  

Concomitance The state in which one object is associated with and simultaneously present to another object. The doctrine of concomitance is used to explain why the entire Christ—Body, Blood, and Soul and Divinity—is present under each Eucharistic Species of bread and wine. When a validly ordained priest, using valid matter with the proper intention, during Mass says, “This is My Body,” the Body of Christ is substantially present, while His Blood, Soul and Divinity become present by concomitance, precisely because His Body cannot be separated from His Blood, Soul and Divinity. Christ cannot be divided. (“Concomitance,” in Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia, ed. Peter M. J. Stravinskas [rev ed.; Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1998], 262)