
I study new basic CCC stands Catechism of the Catholic Church. ![]()
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I am curious finding more spiritual sweet tasting truth the word “Eucharist” means “thanksgiving” and “to show favor.”
Holy Eucharist is True Presence of Messiah/Christ means Anointed One is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. ![]()
We believe, as the Catechism states, that “In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist ‘the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained’” (CCC 1374).
First read CCC 1374
The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.”201 In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.”202 “This presence is called ‘real’ – by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”203
201 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,73,3c.💜🤟🙏🕊️
202 Council of Trent (1551): DS 1651.
203 Paul VI, MF 39.
💜🤟🙏🕊️ 201 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,73,
The Eucharist is, as it were, “the consummation of the spiritual life, and the end of all the sacraments” (Summa, III, 73, 3, c.).
The reason for this, St Thomas explains, lies in the fact that whereas the energy — “vis” or “virtus” — of the Passion of Christ is active in the other sacraments, the Eucharist contains “Christ’s own Body” (Summa, III, 73, 1, 3m); in Scholastic language, Christ is present as “the common spiritual good of the whole Church… contained substantially in the sacrament itself of the Eucharist” (Summa, III, 65, 3, 1), in order to bring man to full communion with Christ in the Passion (cf. Summa, III, 73, 2, 3m).
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