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Catholic Encyclopedia: Eucharist
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, July 14 2008, 21:57:07 (CEST)
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...There's much written here but the essential part is....

Eucharist

See also EUCHARIST AS SACRIFICE, EUCHARIST AS SACRAMENT, and REAL PRESENCE.

(Greek eucharistia, thanksgiving).

"The name given to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar in its twofold aspect of sacrament and Sacrifice of Mass, and in which Jesus Christ is truly present under the bread and wine.

It is the Church alone, "the pillar and ground of truth", imbued with and directed by the Holy Spirit, that guarantees to her children through her infallible teaching the full and unadulterated revelation of God. Consequently, it is the first duty of Catholics to adhere to what the Church proposes as the "proximate norm of faith" (regula fidei proxima), which, in reference to the Eucharist, is set forth in a particularly clear and detailed manner in Sessions XIII, XXI, and XXII of the Council of Trent.

The quintessence of these doctrinal decisions consists in this, that in the Eucharist the Body and Blood of the God-man are truly, really, and substantially present for the nourishment of our souls, by reason of the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, and that in this change of substances the unbloody Sacrifice of the New Testament is also contained."



....enough said. There would be no "miracle" of the mass without the conversion of bread and wine into flesh and blood. No one expects the priest to whip out a torn fragment of actual flesh and a gob of congealed blood...that wouldn't be a "miracle", just a revolting spectacle. But the bread and wine are miraculously transformed INTO real flesh and blood...and that, dear reader, is as close to cannibalism and vampirism as anyone needs to get. Besides...even if it's symbollic...what's the reason to use a CRIME as a symbol of a religion?



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