THEREFORE (Because He was carried up into heaven)
"Wherefore HENCEFORTH know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet NOW HENCEFORTH know we him NO MORE." 2 Cor. 5:16.
He cannot be known NOW by what we feel, taste, hear, smell or see. Which seems to include the Eucharist. And visions and apparitions. And crosses with Christ hanging on them. And so on.
"Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh"
It doesn't just say we don't know Jesus Christ in the flesh, but that we don't know anybody ("no man") in the flesh. Now obviously, we can know people by what we feel, taste, hear, smell or see. We all know people through our senses. So what does St. Paul mean when he says we know "no man" in the flesh? Clearly he does not mean that we are all now disincarnated. We have bodies. We are not disembodied. And neither is Christ disincarnated or disembodied. He arose bodily; He ascended bodily.
Where is Christ? He is now at the right hand of the Father in His glorious, resurrected body.
He is also in the Eucharist, for He said "This is My body."
He is also in us, and we are His body. We are the mystical body of Christ.
We now know "no man" in the flesh: we do not think of ANY person in an exclusively mechanistic/materialistic manner anymore. We do not think of persons as limited to matter and energy, time and space. We are embodied spirits: enspirited bodies. We not just "things".
When we imagine persons as just "things" bound by the laws of time and space, we are thinking in the flesh.
Don't you believe that we are the Body of Christ; and the bread He blesses is the Body of Christ (as He said "This IS My Body"); and He is in heaven, having risen in the flesh, and is seated at the right hand of the Father?
He is capable of doing this. Of course He can. Goodness gracious, even electrons and protons can bilocate (LINK!).
And that's just a material phenomenon. It's not even spiritual. It's mere quantum mechanics. And do you think that Jesus Christ, in His totality, His body, blood, soul and divinity, could not even do what an electron can do, and be two places at once??
He is so much greater than what we can grasp in our carnal minds.
P.S. This is coming to you from don-o's account, since I am using my husband's computer right now. [I am not bilocating :o) ] But if you care to respond, please ping it to Mrs. Don-o.