Transubstantiation (audio only)
Sermon by Bishop Daniel Dolan

Playing time: 15 Minutes

John: 6-54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 

                                                                           

  THE MYSTERY OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION

Because Christ our Redeemer declared that what he offered under the species if bread was truly his body, it has always been the faith of the Church of God (and the holy Synod now again states it) that by the consecration of the bread and wine a change takes place in which the entire substance of bread is changed into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and the entire substance of wine into the substance of His blood. This change the Holy Catholic Church fittingly and properly entitles. “transubstantiation”.

If anyone says the substance of bread and wine remains in the holy sacrament of the Eucharist together with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies the wonderful and unique change of the entire substance of bread into Christ's body and the entire substance of the wine into His blood---only the appearance of bread and wine remaining—a change which the Catholic Church most approved privately calls “transubstantiation”: let him be anathema. 12 a

John: 6-56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

 

12a Council of Trent, Sess. XII, Chap. 4 and Can. 2; Denz. 877 and 884 

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