CATECHESIS ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST: PREFACE AND PART ONE

ON OCT. 18, BISHOP DAVID M. O’CONNELL, C.M., issued the preface and first installment in his five part catechetical series on the Eucharist. 

An excerpt follows: “The Holy Eucharist is the “Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity” of the Lord Jesus Christ, Catholics are accustomed to say. It is not a “sign” or “symbol.”  The Holy Eucharist IS the Lord Jesus Christ: real, true, entire, and substantial. The bread and wine placed on the altar at every celebration of Holy Mass becomes the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ “through the power of the Holy Spirit and the instrumentality of the priest.”

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