Annotatio secunda Gregorii de Valentia societatis Iesu de controversia ubiquetaria

Page 8. Schmidelin’s inept argument for Ubiquity.

Christ does not need Ubiquity to console his faithful.

Excessive appetite for consolation in the Ubiquitarians.

John 17. Book 11 on John, ch. 21. Carnal Ubiquitarians.

St. Cyril corrects them.

...in his writing that seems worthy of annotation) he says: "If Christ were present to the faithful only in the Sacrament and nowhere else, they would have little consolation in their temptations, unless the Sacrament were administered to them continuously day and night, and even morning and evening, and everywhere." As if Christ were not sufficiently powerful to console according to the divine hypostasis of his humanity through the ubiquity of his humanity, as he is present, and also according to his divine nature, which is similarly nowhere absent, and likewise according to his humanity from heaven and from the Sacrament, which is most holily reserved in churches according to the Catholic manner (let the Sectarians burst) and truly remains, even when it is not being used. The Ubiquitarians act inconsiderately if they require more consolation of that kind than what should have been sufficient even for the Apostles themselves when they were saddened by the future absence of Christ according to the flesh. What that consolation was, they will hear—not from me, but from Blessed Cyril. He, while clearly overturning Ubiquity, nevertheless instructs the Ubiquitarians themselves, just as if he were speaking to them specifically, and shows the way to a solid consolation in that regard. Interpreting, therefore, those words of Christ to the Father: "But now I am coming to you," he says: "The disciples thought (the Ubiquitarians now think and object the same) that the absence of Christ as man would be the cause of many troubles: since he who could rescue them from all evils would not be present. But it was necessary to look not only to the flesh of Christ, but also to his Deity: which, although it is not seen by the eyes, is nevertheless always present with supreme power. Nor is there anything that can prevent it from filling all things and carrying out what it wills: for the divine nature is not circumscribable by place or dimensions. Therefore, since Christ is truly God and man, they ought to have understood by the ineffable..."