A Muslim at Mass
As part of a study visit to Rome, Talha Bozkurt and his fellow students from Cambridge Muslim College - all potential future Muslim leaders in Britain - attended a Catholic mass at the Church of St Anselmo of the Aventine, home to a community of Benedictine monks. For Talha and most of the other students, it was the first time they had experienced this form of worshipping God, so profoundly different from what they know in their own Islamic tradition.
The Prior of the monastery Father Elias Lorenzo explains how Catholics view God's presence in the bread and wine of communion as a mysterious presence, rather than a physical one.
Talha shares his thoughts with presenter Abdul-Rehman Malik.
Picture: A priest holds a Holy Communion wafer, Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images
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