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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Eucharist

Receiving Christ in the Eucharist is very comforting in times of difficulty.  He consoles and strengthens us.   

After receiving communion in the Latin Mass the faithful say:
(Corpus tuum, Dómine, quod sumpsi, et Sanguis, quem potávi, adhǽreat viscéribus meis: et præsta; ut in me non remáneat scélerum macula.
May Thy Body, O Lord, which I have received and Thy Blood which I have drunk, cleave to my inmost parts, and grant that no stain of sin remain in me.)

That is, Christ literally becomes one with our bodies.  He cleaves to us completely.

When we receive the Eucharist, we participate in a most intimate way with the person of Jesus Christ himself. When we consume the host, we are receiving the entire Body and Blood of Christ and when we receive from the chalice, we are receiving the entire Body and Blood of Christ. The formal term for this is “concomitance;” that is, the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ are contained in either species. Therefore, one may receive from either species and still receive the whole of the Eucharist. We should not look upon the Precious Blood as being somehow “lesser” than the host. Both are equally the Eucharist.

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