Part Two: The Parts of the Mass as a Guide to the Congress Theme - V. The Liturgy of the Eucharist: Communion with Christ in the Eucharist - V.c. The Eucharistic Prayer – A Communal Act of Thanksgiving to God the Father - V.c. iii. Consecration – Jesus Christ, source of transforming communion is really, truly and substantially present

The Eucharistic Prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving and sanctification. The Risen Crucified Christ acts upon the bread and wine through the power of the Spirit, communicating his definitive life by means of these transformed elements. Bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ ‘by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself’ (Phil 3:21). From the beginning of the Church the efficacy of the Word of Christ and of the action of the Holy Spirit to bring about this conversion has been affirmed. The Council of Trent summarises: Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God...that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.[54]

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The Eucharist: Communion with Christ and with one another

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