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Words Every Catholic Should Know & Meditate on About the Eucharist

04-05-2026Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

Transubstantiation: The Church makes use of this word in the Catechism to help us understand the meaning of the Holy Eucharist. A substance is what something is. Material substances have an outward appearance: color, weight, size, etc. In the Holy Eucharist bread stops being bread and wine stops being wine. The substance changes.

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