My Flesh Indeed: On the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist
St. Thomas will give us another liturgical proof why there's only the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist a substantial change from bread and wine he says because if we also had bread and wine in the Eucarist when we receive in Eucharist we will be breaking the Eucharistic fast by having bread and wine at the same time that we will be receiving Holy Communion. Here we remember that the sacraments effect what they signify. The key idea is to say focus on the substance it seems like that with respect to understanding transubstantiation Thomas’s key ideas to sayFocus on the form focus on what the words say.
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