Transubstantiation Eucharist in the Catholic Church

mass @ grotto @ lourdes. chalice displayed people after consecration of wine.

according catholic church, when bread , wine consecrated priest @ mass, cease bread , wine, , become instead precious body , blood of christ. empirical appearances , attributes not changed, underlying reality is. consecration of bread (known afterwards host) , wine represents separation of jesus body blood @ calvary; thus, separation represents death of christ. however, since according catholic dogma christ has risen, church teaches body , blood no longer separated, if appearances of bread , wine are. 1 is, other must be. called doctrine of concomitance. therefore, although priest (or minister) says, body of christ , when administering host, and, blood of christ , when presenting chalice, communicant receives either 1 receives christ, whole , entire— body, blood, soul, , divinity .

transubstantiation (from latin transsubstantiatio) change of substance of bread , wine of body , blood of christ, change that, according belief of catholic church, occurs in eucharist. concerns changed (the substance of bread , wine), not how change brought about.

substance here means in itself. (for more on philosophical concept, see substance theory.) hat s shape not hat itself, nor colour hat, nor size, nor softness touch, nor else perceptible senses. hat (the substance ) has shape, colour, size, softness , other appearances, distinct them. whereas appearances, referred philosophical term accidents perceptible senses, substance not.

when @ last supper jesus said: body , held in hands had appearances of bread. however, catholic church teaches underlying reality changed in accordance jesus said, substance of bread converted of body. in other words, body, while appearances open senses or scientific investigation still of bread, before. church believes same change of substance of bread , of wine occurs @ every catholic mass throughout world.

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the catholic church accordingly believes through transubstantiation christ really, , substantially present under remaining appearances of bread , wine, , transformation remains long appearances remain. reason consecrated elements preserved, in church tabernacle, giving holy communion sick , dying, , secondary, still highly lauded, purpose of adoring christ present in eucharist.

in judgment of catholic church, concept of transubstantiation, accompanying unambiguous distinction between substance or underlying reality, , accidents or humanly perceptible appearances, safeguards against sees mutually opposed errors of, on 1 hand, merely figurative understanding of real presence of christ in eucharist (the change of substance real), and, on other hand, interpretation amount cannibalistic (a charge pagans leveled @ catholic christians did not understand rites of catholic church in considered unbloody sacrifice ) eating of flesh , corporal drinking of blood of christ (the accidents remain real, not illusion) , christ really, truly, , substantially present in eucharist, not physically present, physically present in judea of 2 millennia ago).

some put forward idea transubstantiation concept intelligible in terms of aristotelian philosophy. earliest known use of term transubstantiation describe change bread , wine body , blood of christ hildebert de lavardin, archbishop of tours (died 1133) in 1079, long before latin west, under influence of saint thomas aquinas (c. 1227-1274), accepted aristotelianism. (the university of paris founded between 1150 , 1170.) term substance (substantia) reality of in use earliest centuries of latin christianity, when spoke of son being of same substance (consubstantialis) father. corresponding greek term οὐσία son said ὁμοούσιος father , change of bread , wine body , blood of christ called μετουσίωσις . doctrine of transubstantiation independent of aristotelian philosophical concepts, , these not , not dogmata of church.