The real presence

1. when did Christ give his priest the power to change bread and wine into his body and blood?

Christ gave his priest the power to change bread and wine into his body and blood when he made the
apostles priests at the Last Supper by saying to them, “Do this in remembrance of me”.

2. How do priests exercise their power to change bread and wine into the body and blood of
Christ?

The priest exercise their power to change bread and wine bread and wine into the body and blood of
Christ by repeating The consecration at mass the words of Christ: “This is My body…this is my Blood”

3. At mass, at the words of consecration, transubstantiation takes place: that is the entire
substance of the bread and wine is changed into our Lod’s Body and Blood
4. The appearance of bread and wine remain. The consecrated host continues to look like bread,
tastes and feels like bread, for the entire substance of bread is changed into Christ’s Body
5. In the Eucharist Christ is present holy body blood soul and divinity
6. Christ is whole and entire under the appearances of bread and wine as Christ body is a living
body and a living body has blood, so Christ blood is there wherever his body is.
7. Grace is whole and entire in its part of the host and in each drop of the chalice when the host is
broken the Body of Christ is not broken but he exists whole and entire in each fragment.
8. Christ body and blood are present in the consecrated species as long as the appearances of
bread and wine remain.
9. why does Christ give us his own body and blood in the Eucharist? Christ give us his own body
and blood in the holy Eucharist:
a. to be offered as a sacrifice commemorating and renewing the sacrifice of the cross: ”For
as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the death of the Lord
until he comes again... ;In the mass Jesus offers himself as a victim for his heavenly
father.
b. To be received in Holy Communion: “I am the bread of life he who eats my flesh and
drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. He who eats me shall live because of me.
(John 6 48, 56, 58). The Eucharist is food to nourish the soul. “by this food we are united
to Christ who nourishes us with his divine life; sanctifying grace and all virtues increase
in our souls.
i. Our evil inclinations are lessened.
ii. The Holy Eucharist is a pledge of everlasting life. “if any man it of this bread he
shall live forever”
iii. Holy Communion needs the mass to supply the consecrated species; for this
reason mass and communion are inseparable
c. To remain ever on our altar as a proof of his love and to be worshipped by us.
i. “remain with us Lord, four with thee is the fountain of life (ps55:10)
ii. come to me all you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will give you
rest Matthew 11: 28.
iii. we say we love Jesus; do we prove our love? When we have a dear friend we are
ever eager to be in his presence; do we show Jesus the same loving tenderness?
or are we so forgetful of him that we go to see him only once a week?
10. since Christ real presence is in the Eucharist, what honor are we bound to render it? we are
bound to render the whole Eucharist the same adoration and honor due God himself.
a. it is a most wonderful privilege to have Christ actually present every moment of the day
and night. When the Blessed Sacrament is in the Tabernacle it is covered with a curtain
or veil and a sanctuary lamp is kept burning before it. When we enter and leave the
church, we should genuflect on the right knee towards the Tabernacle, as a sign of
adoration
b. This is why the Tabernacle is the most precious part of a church. special care should be
given to keep the altar linen clean; in most parishes there are altar societies of women
who devout part of their time to the care of altar linen, vestment and etcetera.
c. we can show Jesus our love and gratitude by every day paying him a visit in the Blessed
Sacrament, by attending benediction, by hearing holy mass and receiving communion,
by spending an hour of adoration when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed and by other
devotions.
11. Nature and history of Sacrifice. what is a sacrifice? a sacrifice is the offering of a victim
by a priest to God alone and the destruction of it in some way to acknowledge that he is the
creator and Lord of all things.
12. man offers sacrifice to God, in acknowledgement of his supreme power and in gratitude for his
gift especially for the gift of life. The need for offering sacrifice is innate in human nature as
natural as breathing. since man was made for God, his soul flies to him if unchecked as a balloon
source up into the air unless tie down.
13. God gave us life; he breathed into us a soul that is immortal like God himself. Without life and a
soul we would be non existent, nothing; we would not be able to do anything we would not be
able to do anything, not even to recognize God. our life and soul therefore is our most precious
possession and for it we must thank God
14. we must repay God for his gift especially for the invaluable gifts of life.
a. But because our life is so precious, we cannot give God enough for it to repay him.
Analogy: If someone gave us a diamond ring worth 1,000,000 pesos and we gave him 2
pesos in payment that would not be as great a difference between the value of what we
receive and the amount we pay as there would be when God gives us life and we repay
him with material things. But because we have nothing to give which we can repay God
adequately, we do our best, by offering him what we can. This is what men do when
they offer sacrifice.
15. from the beginning of the world men have acknowledged God's existence and power by offering
sacrifice. it was first offered, then destroyed or changed, as by consuming or by fire. the
obligation of a visible object is a symbol of the interior adoration and offering by which the soul
gives itself completely to its creator.
16. in common language we speak of sacrificing for the sake of another; for example, a mother
sacrifices herself for her children, a soldier sacrifices himself for his country. the meaning is that
some valuable things is giving up- time, luxurious, health, life-for the sake of another. So in
offering a sacrifice to God, we give it up, for love of Him.
17. The offering of the sacrifice it's an honor reserved to God alone, since the formal act of offering
and destroying an oblation is an act of worship or adoration. in order to make a solemn religious
 act of sacrifice to God, men have from earliest days ask priest, those consecrated to the service
of God, to offer their sacrifices, to be the intermediary between man and God.
18. in ordinary life, we offer valuable things to those we love or respect, as a sign of gratitude or
affection. in this way we give Christmas and birthday presents commemoration gift, etcetera. But
this offerings are “a sacrifice” only in the common sense of the term., and are not included in the
formal sacrifice that can be offered to God alone. This last is the offering and destroying or
changing of something, in acknowledgement of God’s infinite majesty.