Yes, I don’t think we can attribute hearing, even possibly, to the Eucharistic species if we cannot predicate any of his bodily presence to the extension of the Eucharist. The most obvious way we would say this is possible would be something like: “God allows, by a miraculous change of the accidents, the power of receiving sound, as the eardrum and all the rest of the parts of the ear, nervous system, brain, etc., do.”
But if none of the accidents whatsoever are to be regarded as Christ’s physical presence, then there is nothing to change in such a way as to allow for this property. In that case, there is nothing that could even possibly have the power. So just in the same way that we do not say Christ is bodily shredded to pieces or dissolved in stomach acid through Eucharistic consumption, so also, I think, we have to say that Christ does not bodily hear through Eucharistic presence.
It would be easier to say that God could change the accidents of the Eucharist so as to make them a place of reception for sensate hearing for him than to hold that Christ’s own physical presence would do the hearing.
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