The
Real Presence Christ in the Eucharist
Protestants reject
transubstantiation, as do Jews, Muslims, and other religions--including weak
Catholics. The basic objection to the Catholic doctrine of the real presence is
not that it’s against Scripture, but against reason. However, the words of
Jesus are clear enough. “This is my
body.” “This is my blood.” “Unless
you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you do not have life
in you.”
The crisis of faith today
is disbelief in the Holy Eucharist just as the mystery of faith was first
announced by Christ in St. John. Many people had until then been devoted to
Christ began to wonder, then murmur, and finally doubting and left His Company
saying: “This saying is hard, and who can hear it?”
But what is so hard to
believe about Jesus’ flesh being turned into His Body and Blood at the
Transubstantiation? Can God make galaxies that outnumber the grains of sand on all
the beaches on earth and not change bread and wine into his Body and Blood?
“With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew
19:26)
At the Basilica of Lanciano
in Lanciano, Italy there’s a Monstrance that holds the Body and Blood of Jesus.
It has contained for over twelve centuries Jesus’ Body and Blood. It was as a
divine response to a Basilian monk’s doubt about the Real Presence in the
Eucharist.
One morning, while he was
having a strong attack of doubt, he began the Consecration of the Mass for the
people of the town. He used the same size host which is used in the Latin Rite
masses today. What he beheld as he consecrated the bread and wine caused his
hands to shake, indeed his whole body. He stood for a long time with his back
to the people, and then slowly turned around to them. He said:
“O
fortunate witnesses to
whom the Blessed God, to confound my disbelief, has wished to reveal Himself in
this Most Blessed Sacrament and to render Himself visible to our eyes. Come,
brethren, and marvel at our God so close to us .Behold the Flesh and Blood of
our most beloved Christ.”
The host had turned into
flesh. The wine had turned into Blood. This miracle ongoing, the Host turned-flesh, and the
wine-turned-Blood, without the use of any form of preservative, is still
present in the reliquary to this day and has been witnessed by many people,
including myself.
“And whilst they were at
supper, Jesus took bread, and broke: and gave it to his disciples, and said:
take ye, and eat. This is my body. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and
gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this. For this is my
blood
of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of
sins.” (Matthew 26:26-28)
Jesus did not say, this is
the symbol of my body; but absolutely, This is my body: which plainly
implies transubstantiation.
“Except you eat the flesh
of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.” (John
6:53). “For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.” (John 6:56)
This is my blood of the
new covenant, which is shed for MANY for the remission of sins (Matthew
25:28). Without shedding of blood there is no remission. (Heb 10:18)
Note:
The
word used by Jesus was: Many, not All, which is the word used
by the false Vatican ll Church. All does not have the same meaning as many and
has been infallibly condemned by Pope Paul lV. And, if used in place of many,
does not confect the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus.
Let us, therefore, go
before the Living God in the Person of Jesus Christ, wholly and entirely
present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the alter, body and blood, soul and
divinity.
Pray the Rosary wear the
Brown Scapular and pray for those unbelievers so that they may come to know
Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
