TRUE PRESENCE
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“The greatest love story
of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.”
-Archbishop Fulton Sheen
We believe Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist
We believe that as bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His Body and Blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ, enthroned gloriously in heaven and we believe that the mysterious presence of the Lord, under what continues to appear to our senses as before, is a true, real and substantial presence.” This mysterious change is very appropriately called by the Church transubstantiation. - Creed of the People of God, Part 8, Promulgated by Pope Paul VI June 30, 1968
The presence of Jesus in the tabernacle must be a kind of magnetic pole attracting an ever greater number of souls enamoured of him, ready to wait patiently to hear his voice and, as it were, to sense the beating of his heart. “O taste and see that the Lord is good!” (Ps 34:8).
- John Paul II, Mane Nobiscum Domine, #18
We believe the Eucharist is wholly Christ: body, blood, soul and divinity
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.
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.
-Catechism of the Catholic Church #1374
More information from USCCB - The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist: Basic Questions and Answers
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