Hoc Est Corpus

Hoc est corpus*, hocus pocus Legerdemaine, a shift in focus Hoc est corpus, from the Mass Hocus pocus, parody crass Transubstantiation phrase Ridicule, to baser plays Papists, Protestants at odds Declaring doctrines with regards To our Lord’s communinion meal Causing strife, divisions real Luther replaced trans with con Zwingli’s bread, alone anon Calvin said we participate, Joined to Christ when we partake Hocus Pocus, thus a slur “Magical”, what was inferred. After Christ’s blood, more was shed Strange remembrance, but ‘nuf said… ---------- *Hoc est corpus meum, Latin for ‘This is my body’ From what I can find, Hocus Pocus was the stage name for a magician who performed around 1640. Somewhere along the way, someone noted a similarity of sound between 'hoc est corpus' and 'hocus pocus', and observed (sarcastically) that the Catholics must believe magic occurred during the reciting of the mass to change the wine and bread into the blood and body of Christ...