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 -The Real Presence is more than a metaphor, but it does have similarities to it

Bread & wine become (instead of being like and yet are linked to the accidents remain) the Flesh and Blood.

Mary, litanies to Our Lady a replete with metaphors of her. Not just in a similar sense but in a real and concrete manner. She is the Mirror of Justice, Seat of Wisdom, mystical rose,[1] etc…

The metaphors are more like her

If a poet is honest in their quest for scalpel precision truth, then sooner or later, they will encounter the Truth. A consequence of this encounter integrity in creation will become self-evident. To paraphrase Frank Sheed, the more one sees the world as God (Theology) sees it, the greater the sanity (truth) that the person will understand, encounter.

Transcendent Truth- Essential Catholic Idea. Metaphysical would be theologians or philosopher would enter into conversation. Catholic Poetry aims to express truth that is beyond (metaphysical) ourselves in way that we can comprehend it somehow.

Defining God, a huge project within metaphysics and theology, is something all of us do. The Incarnation is pivotal in our understanding of God.

Pare down sense perception to the marrow, see it in its essence

Science, don’t know the essence, its abstraction.

Essence of the person remains even after a passage of time.

Poetry

Start with what it says, then consider the metaphor

Poetry & logic need one another

[1] https://www.catholicgallery.org/prayers/litany-of-mary/  accessed March 3, 2025

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