Eucharist

Jesus said: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever,…he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and…abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:51,54,56)

TRULY PRESENT

The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend."²⁰¹ In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained."²⁰² "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present."²⁰³
 

^{The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1374}