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Clear all filtersBaltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 241
Our Lord instituted the Holy Eucharist by taking bread, blessing, breaking, and giving to His Apostles, saying: Take ye and eat. This is My body; and then by taking the cup of wine, blessing and giving it, saying to them: Drink ye all of this. This is My blood which shall be shed for the remissio…Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 242
When our Lord said, This is My body, the substance of the bread was changed into the substance of His body; when He said, This is My blood, the substance of the wine was changed into the substance of His blood.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 243
Jesus Christ is whole and entire both under the form of bread and under the form of wine.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 244
After the substance of the bread and wine had been changed into the substance of the body and blood of our Lord there remained only the appearances of bread and wine.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 245
By the appearances of bread and wine I mean the figure, the color, the taste, and whatever appears to the senses.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 246
This change of the bread and wine into the body and blood of our Lord is called Transubstantiation.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 247
The substance of the bread and wine was changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ by His almighty power.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 248
This change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ continues to be made in the Church by Jesus Christ through the ministry of His priests.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 249
Christ gave His priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood when He said to the Apostles, Do this in commemoration of Me.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 22, question 250
The priests exercise this power of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ through the words of consecration in the Mass, which are the words of Christ: This is My body; this is My blood.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 23, question 251
Christ instituted the Holy Eucharist — 1. To unite us to Himself and to nourish our soul with His divine life. 2. To increase sanctifying grace and all virtues in our soul. 3. To lessen our evil inclinations. 4. To be a pledge of everlasting life. 5. To fit our bodies for a glorious resurrection.…Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 23, question 252
We are united to Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist by means of Holy Communion.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 23, question 253
Holy Communion is the receiving of the body and blood of Christ.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 23, question 254
To make a good Communion it is necessary to be in the state of sanctifying grace, to have a right intention, and to obey the laws of fasting. (See Q. 257.)Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 23, question 255
He who receives Communion in mortal sin receives the body and blood of Christ, but does not receive His grace, and he commits a great sacrilege.Read the source passage →