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Eucharist & the Mass

Is Christ's body anatomically and physiologically present?

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Christ’s real body is present. Anatomical structure and physiological modifications belong to qualities possessed by substance. After the consecration we have the substance of Christ’s body present without any external manifestation of His anatomical or physiological appearances, and the qualities of bread remaining as the object of sense perception without any substance of bread. That substance of bread has been converted into the substance of Christ’s body. And as substance is the basic reality, we rightly say that the Blessed Sacrament is the very body of Christ

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