Does Holy Communion physically merge our DNA with Christ's, making us children of Mary physically?

Well, let me just say that's all false. Helen, I understand why you're going down that path, and it's okay. Sometimes you need to go down a path, so don't be embarrassed about that. But this is not something the Church or the Church Fathers touch upon. It's not something Scripture touches upon. So we're dealing from, how would you say, a vacuum in trying to understand first your question and then answer it. There is no mixture of the body of Christ in the Eucharist with our body. That's the no-no. What was bread is now the body, and the substance there is no longer bread. What's being dissolved? We say that the outer characteristics, in the philosophical term they say accidents, are being dissolved. For the same reason, when the host comes into your mouth, you can smell it. It responds to gravity like bread. It has all those characteristics of bread, but that's miraculous. They're put there by God as a cover, as you might say, of the real body and blood of Christ underneath. And God allows those attributes, those characteristics, to be done away with just like normal bread. That's the miracle of the whole thing. We don't know how that occurs. There's been no statement, not even close to that, from the Church, from the Fathers, from any spiritual source that we have had for the last 2000 years.