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 Eucharist Is the Sign of Sufficient Charity
St. Thomas says that the truth of the Eucharist is Christ's true body and blood not just a figure quote belongs to Christ's love out of which for our salvation he assumed the true body of our nature so the incarnation that was used to be. He continues because it is a special feature of friendship to live together with friends as the philosopher Aristotle says who promises us his bodily presence as a reward saying where the body is the body of Christ is there shall the eagles be gathered together. Meanwhile in our pilgrimage he does not deprive us of his bodily presence but unites us with himself in this sacrament through the truth of his body and blood from John 6. The final quotation I put
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