A Sacrament
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- Thu Jul 11 2002

... "A sacrament is an outward and invisible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." This is relevant to the Eucharist because the Eucharist is a symbol for the body and blood of Christ. Our main belief about the Eucharist during mass is that when we receive the body and blood that it is actually the body and blood of Jesus because he is present at that time. We believe that Christ is present at the Eucharist and that the bread actually becomes the body and the wine becomes the blood. "Christ becomes present in this sacrament precisely by a change of the breads whole substance into his body and the wines whole substance into his blood" (St Thomas Aquinas) Other Christian traditions don't believe that Christ is present during the Consecration; instead they believe that the "bread" and "wine" are symbols for his body and blood. Also they don't focus their













