Through my own Eucharistic miracle I was blessed to know our Holy Communion we receive in our Catholic mass truely is Jesus and not a symbol....After weeks of being distressed during mass with this question of how do you really know I brought Holy Communion home to my elderly 94 year old Mom in a church approved pix container....My Mom was making her rosaries ( about a 100,000 to date ) as I got home from Sunday evening mass . I said Mom I have communion for you. When I reached for the Eucharist from my pix container O was started to see that there was a pure white dove out stretched and as if inlayed on my Holy Eucharist host. Incredible !! My Mom acted no different when I gave her the comminion host. The next day I called the church where I got the Holy Eucharist host from and the priest said our communion hosts have no white doves on them. they are all the same; a plain wheat colored communion host....The next day I googled white dove and Holy Spirit and immediately Luke 3:22 came up. That bible verse is about the baptism of Jesus and states: And the spirit of God came down upon him in the shape of a dove and a voice from heaven said this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased....Well that hit me like a ton of bricks cause I instantly knew God had answered the distressing questions I was having with mysrlf during mass I that I mentioned earlier ...The dove came down upon Jesus in the bible verse , there was a white dove on my Holy Communion host...Yes! God just miraculously told me the Holy Communion host we receive in our Catholic mass has been transfored by the priest to be the ACTUAL body of Jesus !!! Yes this really happened to me about four and a half years ago !! Yeah and obviously no more of those distressing questions come to me during mass anymore....Yes, Jesus Christ TRUELY is present through our Ctholic priests in the Holy Commumion we receive during mass...So please be truely ready for Holy Communion by going to Confession often. Jim

Amazing. I go to Mass for the Eucharist and Confession. God Bless.

It's a blessing to hear bedrock Catholic teaching. Thank you, Father Legge. Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.

All I can say is: WOW, that was AMAZING...welcome to the wonderful world of Catholic metaphysics!

I grew up in a Protestant home. I remember asking my parents why Catholics believe the bread and wine are the body and blood of Christ and "we" don't even though the Bible says they are. My parents said that it was just a Catholic thing, and "we" don't believe that. Always found that argument a little weak. Probably why I'm a Catholic now.

This is why I became Catholic. everything else is secondary. politics, parish customs, liturgy, saints and angels. all is secondary to Christ Our Lord. Praise be to God.

I am trying to explain the Eucharist to my sister who is a Protestant Evangelical (of the Charismatic sort). When I said that Jesus was really, truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity, she gave me this really confused face. When I told her that it was the substance of Christ's body, she was almost offended. To her, Jesus is always present. And I said, "Yes, Jesus is always made present by the Holy Spirit, but Jesus' body is present in a special way that is different from him being made present by the Holy Spirit in the day to day." To be sure, the teaching that Jesus is really and truly present body, blood, soul, and divinity... it is a hard teaching. But man, is it absolutely beautiful when you begin to understand it.

“At the last supper Jesus held his body in his hands” St Augustine

If Jesus says he is there in the bread, he is!

I still don’t understand it but I believe it is Jesus’s body. I have faith 😊🙏🏻💛

I was stuck at understanding the manner of Christ's presence in the Eucharist, and today I clarified my doubts... Also now only I understood about concomitance.. thank you Fr Legge and Aquinas 101 team... Excellent... May God bless you all ❤❤❤

I have been blessed to have dreams and visions of the Holy Eucharist. I have dreamt that I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, and I heard a voice, " Arrise, you are not praying to a wafer of bread, but the Lord. I looked up, and I saw Our Lord Jesus Christ emanating from the Eucharist. The Eucharist was in his sacred heart. I also dreamt and had visions during the consecration of the host, of seeing the face of Jesus inprinted in the Eucharist. Now, I can still see his face when the priest elevates the host and declares, "This is my body." Jesus is present in the Eucharist!

Well explained, really spot on! I'm going to share this not just to my friends, but also to my family to understand Our Lord's presence in the Eucharist. God bless you all

Indeed what’s in your heart matters to the upmost degree when having a relationship with our Father.

Putting it simply for everyone, the bread becomes his Body and the wine his Blood, but Body and Blood retain the appearances of bread and wine. And since you cant separate a part of Christ from another part of Christ, his Blood, Soul and Divinity are present in his Body and his Body, Soul and Divinity are present in his Blood.

Very interesting. When I was in mass on Sunday the priest was talking about the Eucharist. I never thought about it fully. and I don't think I have ever got as good of an explanation as this.

Thank you sl much FR.DOMINIC for your clear explanation....God bless....

This presentation may seem a little complicated or confusing for those who don't understand, but look at all the Eucharist miracles in the history of the Holy Catholic Church and how science proves it to be true... Let alone Jesus Christ own words in Holy scriptures

Let the Most Holy Sacrament be praised, now and always, and unto ages of ages Amen 🤲🍞🍇✝️

Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there..."

Fantastic video! I’ll be using this in my RCIA classes!!!

I have always found it helpful, so as to enter-in, spiritually, in recollecting ourselves that the moments of Christ's life are present to us, including, for instance the Passion. Being before the passion of Christ, can grant the imagination some help when entering in through faith, and grant us a deeper union in our worship with Christ, otherwise sometimes we encounter Christ as though he were present, but in a static manner.

This was a very good explanation of substance and accidents.

I do believe .... increase my faith Lord

Thank you so much for this clear explanation. God bless you

Wow, thank you for taking the time to respond to further questions on this topic. Your original video is excellent, but your answers to these questions are extending my knowledge and insights even more. I have really been struggling on this topic for the past year, and now i thank my loving savoiur Jesus for providing me with the clarity i sought, through your most excellent work.😊

This is very well explained. Thank you.

Great job Father! Keep up the Good work!

"If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it." -Flannery O'Connor on the Eucharist

I know first hand something supernatural goes on during the eucharist. I went during a Saturday afternoon massage once and as it began I was feeling bad sickly. Dizzy agitated and really really spaced out and something urging me to leave running. I stayed and once the priest was about over with the ceremony felt something pop off out of my chest.

Jesus said He’s the living bread, the bread He gives is His FLESH, unless we eat His Flesh & drink His Blood, WE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN US.If we eat & drink of Him UNWORTHILY, WE WILL BE LIABLE & BRING A SENTENCE AGAINST OURSELVES FOR NOT DISCERNING IT TO BE THE BODY & BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR GOD & SAVIOR. Jn6:51-59, 1Cor 11:23-29

I like how it tried to be logical and scientific at the start only to end in "just believe in it cause God said its real"

Could you guys make a video on Eucharistic Miracles.

Hebrews 9:27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. Jesus is never to be re-sacrificed. He was using a metaphor with bread and body just as He did when He said "I am the vine and you are the branches"

The Lord: 'This is My Body. This is My Blood.' Others: 'This is not really His Body. This is not really His Blood.'

I have a protestant friend who cannot accept that John 6 is literal in any way. How is anything impossible for God if He IS Who IS?

My interest in Aquinas began when I read Weigel's biography of Saint Karol Wojtila and how he taught Aquinas to his students. I do not, however, read/understand Latin.

Very clear and helpful!

I appreciate this clarification. I'm allergic to gluten, so I can't eat the communion wafer, and this bothered me because I'm allergic to gluten, I'm not "allergic to Jesus", yet I'll have an allergic reaction if I eat one of these wafers. Your clarification that the "wheat" property is an "accidental" that remains while the "substance" turns into Jesus is helpful to me. But it then makes me ask, why does the Vatican not allow use of gluten free wafers for communion, if the "substance" and not the "accidental" properties of the wafer is what matters?

Thanks Father

Thanks

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the Eternally Begotten Son of God. He cannot lie and does not lie. The power that He gave to His Apostles and ordained disciples and their successes to transform bread and wine into His Body and Blood was Divinely authentic then and it still is today. Those who doubt Our Lord's promises and Truth will be denying their own access to Paradise in Eternity!

great teaching

The whole Christ is present, but His accidents are not present? Jesus was physically present during the Last Supper, was he entirely present in the bread and wine the was personally handling? His body wasn't yet broken, and His blood was not yet spilled. I am open to the idea, but it seems like a lot of mental gymnastics.

To those who have chosen to be “biblical” Christians, I say to them : Good luck!. And as for me, very humbly, I simply wish to become an Eucharistic Christian.

I don't question it. Jesus never lies 🤷🏻‍♂️

Such a well presented explanation!!

Really appreciate this video.

Somebody else beat me to the question about eucharistic miracles because in that situation, the accidents are changing. Do we know of anything else whose substance changes but accidents do not? Thank you, another very well done video.

Yes, the Existing One is "there," but there is something weird about adoring Him in the physical presence in a monstrance versus loving Him in humanity.

***Jesus is present everywhere***

I'm really disappointed that you did not mention the Eucharistic miracles of Tixtla Mexico (2006), Buenos Aires (1996), and Lanciano (8th century) Their priest doubted whether it truly was his body So God responded by turning the Eucharist into *actual* flesh and blood. When analyzed by scientists who were not granted background info, all 3 miracles came with the same result: -It's the flesh of a heart that suffered extreme trauma -Wine is AB blood -DNA tests are inconclusive

It's difficult to free fools from the chains they have learned to revere. Voltaire

I absolutely believe The Eucharist is Christ's Holy Body. He said "This is My Body".

I’m thinking of converting to Catholicism and I’m trying to learn all I can about it including tram trans substantiation. I’m just having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Please help me.

Amen

As a Programmer, this all sounds like Object Oriented Programming lol.

Jesus was physically sitting right there when He said this is my body. That same day in the Hebraic calendar, He gave Himself up on the cross and stated “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit”. It is this spirit that makes a person part of the body of Christ when one experiences the born again experience, John 3:8. We have no control over it, it is like the wind. If Jesus was physically sitting right there when He said it, then you can’t say the physical bread was His physical body. His body was physically broken that day, just like the bread as it was being passed around. There is a spiritual application, that Roman Catholics miss here. Also, if I show you a picture of my Dad, and say “this is my Dad”, does this mean the picture is physically my Dad? No, of course not.

It's also a mystery like the presence of God with the ark in the old testament (except that you can actually consume Him now).

The substance of the communion is not the material things being ingested but the meaning behind the communion itself. In other words, why do you think Christ commanded us by his example to remember the sacrifice of his body?

My wife grew up Catholic and said she only took the wafer and never took the wine …only the priest?? What’s up with that ??

But how does jesus’ word extend beyond that particular scene in the Bible ?

I mean repeatly saying something is happening and it actually happening are two different things

How are substance and accident related to form and matter?

I am surprised no Eucharistic Miracles were given in this video.

Is it faith or intention that receives the Eucharist as the Body of Christ? Does our will to participate in the sacrament 'activate' the presence of God in the Host? Does a consecrated host fall inert on a 'deaf heart'? Questions I always wanted to ask.

Why would any one, especially a Catholic doubt the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist?

That’s why our early church fathers said that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation. Only the Catholic Church has the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. 😇

I wonder how one would go about demonstrating that you can have a substance without any accidents? What does it mean to say that x is substance y but it doesn't possess any accidents z, etc? How can a 'body' be present without any accidents? Isn't a body just a particular kind of substance within time and space, therefore requiring accidents?

We were offered 'a gluten free version for those who need' the other day. I almost fell over as I have never heard that before.

It’s the body and blood of Christ in the form of bread and wine.

"we must believe Him when He says He does it" I think it is imperative that priests proclaim this in their sermons verbatim. just as God was in the burning bush and in the pillar of fire, so too is Jesus in the bread and wine. the athanasian creed should also be recited. most people don't grasp the trinity; but if you replace the instances of God with the Tetragrammaton, the trinity becomes perfectly clear. it is why Jesus at the holy cross had the Holy Name and why the temple priests objected what pilate wrote.

Christ remains as bread because we are not capable of consuming a human being. He remains as a consumable substance for our human nature. The same principle is applied for His Blood.

What you say to someone who says that Jesus used that language often eg plucking your eye, cutting your leg, leaving your family and dead. Did Jesus mean any of those literally?

The Eucharist to give people salvation who don't have the Holy Spirit yet. John 6:63 Jesus tells us that real flesh is worthless and it is the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist. Peter responds and says yes your words of the Eucharist are to bring everlasting salvation. And that the disciples and friends are already saved.

JESUS IS THE CENTER OF THE EUCHARIST.

The idea that what is is substance and accidents is, is it not, the teaching of Aristotle? Trent days that transubstantiation is an APT expression. As noted the Eastern Churches do not use that philosophical wording.

The same construct can be used as a counter argument to confused people who identify as a sex other than that of their birth.

The Last Apostle who drank from the Cup of Christ (Blood of Christ) had all the SALIVAS from all the Apostles who drank from it, perhaps including Judas Iscariot, for in one of the Gospels, Judas was narrated present in the Breaking of the Bread (Body) and distributing of the Cup of Wine (Blood) to the Apostles which they never complain drinking from one (single) cup only... In those days, mouthwashes and toothbrushes had not yet been invented, so most likely possible they had more contaminants in their SALIVAS than with us today. If the Roman Catholic CHURCH took what Christ Jesus had said was LITERAL Body and Blood into the Bread and Wine... and the Apostles never complain about drinking from ONLY "One Cup" based on their FAITH in Christ... therefore, why does the R.C.C. more concerned about the HEALTH of the Priest and those who will be the PARTAKERS?... they need to wash first their hands before touching the Holy Eucharist, and they should have separate drinking cup separate from the Priest and Church members... Does this mean the R.C.C. really never TRULY believes 100% in the "LITERAL SUBSTANTIATION?"... Or perhaps just a "SPIRITUAL REPRESENTATION?" In fact, Christ Jesus himself broke the Bread and dipped the Broken Bread into the Cup of Wine (Blood) and gave it himself to Judas who took it and ate it, which makes Judas Iscariot still part of the 12 Apostles, even though he betrayed Christ... Take note:... Judas ate first the Broken Bread (Body) dipped with Wine (Wine) "BEFORE" Satan entered Judas' body (possessed) and took control of him to carry on the TASK of betraying the Son of God (Christ), according to the Bible... (ref. Luke 22:3 / John 13:27) In conclusion, I believe that on the Judgment Day of God, God will be more MERCIFUL, TOLERABLE, and FAIR/JUST with Judas Iscariot for his atrocity (betrayal and suicide), just like for the People from the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah... for Judas did not do it by himself alone, Satan needed to enter Judas' body (possessed him) to carry on the crime of Betrayal to the Son of God, according to Luke and John's Gospel... Satan knew all along that Judas Iscariot could not carry the ATROCITY TASK by himself alone... Satan was the mastermind of the Betrayal of Christ Jesus... Even in the Law of Man, nobody is convicted if proven without any reasonable doubt that the person was under a temporary or permanent INSANITY during the time of the crime committed... How much more would God fairly judge who knows EVERYTHING... The Broken Bread (Body) dipped with Wine (Blood) which Christ Jesus himself gave to Judas Iscariot and ate before Satan entered Judas' body will be Judas Iscariot's "SAVING GRACE" on Judgment Day of God... Praise be to God in Christ Jesus... Amen.

I am glad I am a free Christian, saved by the grace of Jesus through His mercy and His one and Only sacrifice. I do not have to jump through these pagan hoops and believe a blatant lie like transubstantiation to receive my salvation.

Kung ang tubig sa kasalan sa Cana ay ginawa nyang alak at ang ilang pirasong isda at tinapay ay nagawa nyang paramihin at mapakain ang mahigit sa 5,000 katao ay bakit pa tayo magduda na walang imposible kung nanaisin lang ng Diyos na matanggap natin Sya sa ating puso sa pamamagitan ng pagpapalit ng anyo ng tinapay sa pagiging katawan Nya ng hindi na kailangan pang maging actual na lamanNya?

Follower of Christ here, but I do get how non-followers are exasperated with the hocus pocus aspect of Christianity and possible turned off by nuanced theology. Christ came to seek and save the lost.

To answer to a comment, please notice that The GOSPEL teaches us that JESUS himself founded the Christian worship and consacrated the first priests of the History (his apostles) at the table of the last supper

He is.

I guess the question is. Was Jesus speaking literally or figuratively when he said those words. I believe it was the latter. But that’s just me. I mean wine is wine and not blood just as bread isn’t flesh.

So, I heard a Catholic priest talk about our kids for into vampire movies and then he said why aren't they into the Eucharist? And made a big point about how the Eucharist is just the same idea you eat Jesus's body and drink his blood? So how can we separate the physical molecular structure from the sacramental and personal presence of Christ? And does that mean that that priest is right to say that the Eucharist is alike being a vampire that drinks blood?

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that Christ’s accidents ARE present “per modum substantiae “ Also one should say that after Consecration it is the Lord, Risen, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. It is the Lord under each form entirely.

This is my body and this is my blood. Do this in memory of me. What part of this do i find difficult to understand? If I believe in miracles, then this is a miracle and no further correspondence will be entered into. If i don't believe in miracles, then eternal salvation is probably not my cup of tea. Pretty simple really, for God and Jesus knew that to communicate with humans, then things would need to be in the simplest of forms. Only humans are motivated by complication and confusion so I prefer God's idea of invoking the KISS principle.

Can’t wait to watch this while high with my dog.

All christian priests have achieved the capability to perform this miracle of converting bread into flesh and wine into blood. But, they did not get the capability to perform miracles such as converting water into wine or multiplying the bread to feed the multitude.

Agree..when Jesus says that it becomes His Body...But Mass is celebrated by priest right..So how transubstantation happen during mass?

Yes he is

He is God

And how is Jesus present in the people who receive him? Are they becoming the Body of Christ? The Real Presence of Jesus in the Community? In the way the children are treated? In the way couples relate to each other?

I’m not trying to be snarky because this was a real question from a friend: How is this not cannibalism? Well, of course, it’s not cannibalism. I came up with my own answer. I want to know your answer.

How does the verse from John extend to priests blessing the bread and wine to make the transubstantiation happen

What thomists got wrong after St Thomas is that the subject Fido is but a first substance, dog being a second substance (or essence), where substance-principle is induced from our concret and abstract ways of knowing. My soul is my substance but substance is not soul else all that is would live.

You put it like this: “When a priest says Mass, he starts with bread and wine.” And then you continue saying that “At the consecration, these elements BECOME the body and blood of Christ.” Question: can you show me where can I find in the Bible the verb "BECOME" in reference to the bread and blood becoming the body and the blood? Because, as we read in 1 Corinthians 11:26, the Bible teaches us that “as often as ye eat THIS BREAD, and drink THIS CUP.” It does NOT say that as often ye eat the BODY and drink the BLOOD.

I just wish it would have been in more easy to understand examples and language….🙏

Yes, of course.