Reviews of the declaration
To safeguard the Catholic Faith
Doctrinal errors
in the declaration
Our Declaration
About the threat of excommunication.
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St. Thomas Aquinas on Eucharistic miracles
Responses to the declaration
Church dogmas on the Eucharist
The Holy Eucharst is The Whole Christ
In Italy in 2001
Bishop Roman Danylak's letter
October 19, 2005
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The Body and the Blood of Christ together with His Soul and His
Divinity and therefore the Whole Christ are truly present in the
Eucharist.
One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside
which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice,
Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the Sacrament of the
altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by
the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to
accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He
Himself received from ours. (Lateran Council IV, DS 802)
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If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy
Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially contained the body and
blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
therefore the whole Christ, but shall say that He is in it as by a sign or
figure, or force, let him be anathema. (Council of Trent, DS
1651)
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Christ becomes present in the Sacrament of the Altar by the
transformation of the whole substance of the bread into His Body and of the
whole substance of the wine into His Blood.
If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the
Eucharist there remains the substance of bread and wine together with the body
and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular
conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the entire
substance of the wine into the blood, the species of the bread and wine only
remaining, a change which the Catholic Church most fittingly calls
transubstantiation, let him be anathema. (Council of Trent, DS
1652)
The Worship of Adoration (latria) must be given to Christ
present in the Eucharist.
If anyone says that in the holy sacrament of the Eucharist the
only-begotten Son of God is not to be adored even outwardly with the worship of
latria (the act of adoration), and therefore not to be venerated with a special
festive celebration, nor to be borne about in procession according to the
praiseworthy and universal rite and custom of the holy Church, or is not to be
set before the people publicly to be adored, and that the adorers of it are
idolators, let him be anathema. (Council of Trent, DS
1656)
For the worthy reception of the Eucharist the state of grace as
well as the proper and pious disposition are necessary.
If anyone says that faith alone is sufficient preparation for receiving the
sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist, let him be anathema. And that so great a
Sacrament may not be unworthily received, and therefore unto death and
condemnation, this holy Council ordains and declares that sacramental confession
must necessarily be made beforehand by those whose conscience is burdened by
mortal sin, however contrite they may consider themselves. If anyone moreover
teaches the contrary or preaches or obstinately asserts, or even publicly by
disputation shall presume to defend the contrary, by that fact itself he is
excommunicated. (Council of Trent, DS 1661)
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