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The Baltimore Catechism - Part
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LESSON TWENTY-SECOND: On the Holy Eucharist
- ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST.
- Q.869. What does the word Eucharist strictly mean?
- Q.870. What is the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.871. What do we mean when we say the Sacrament which contains the Body and Blood?
- Q.872. When is the Holy Eucharist a Sacrament, and when is it a sacrifice?
- Q.873. When did Christ institute the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.874. Who were present when our Lord instituted the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.875. How did our Lord institute the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.876. What happened when our Lord said, "This is my body; this is my blood"?
- Q.877. How do we prove the Real Presence, that is, that Our Lord is really and truly present in the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.878. How do we know that it is possible to change one substance into another?
- Q.879. Are these changes exactly the same as the changes that take place in the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.880. How do we show that Christ did change bread and wine into the substance of His body and blood?
- Q.881. Is Jesus Christ whole and entire both under the form of bread and under the form of wine?
- Q.882. How do we know that under the appearance of bread we receive also Christ's blood; and under the appearance of wine we receive also Christ's body?
- Q.883. Is Jesus Christ present whole and entire in the smallest portion of the Holy Eucharist, under the form of either bread or wine?
- Q.884. Did anything remain of the bread and wine after their substance had been changed into the substance of the body and blood of our Lord?
- Q.885. What do you mean by the appearances of bread and wine?
- Q.886. What is this change of the bread and wine into the body and blood of our Lord called?
- Q.887. What is the second great miracle in the Holy Eucharist?
- Q.888. Are there not, then, as many bodies of Christ as there are tabernacles in the world, or as there are Masses being said at the same time?
- Q.889. How was the substance of the bread and wine changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ?
- Q.890. Does this change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ continue to be made in the Church?
- Q.891. When did Christ give His priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood?
- Q.892. What do the words "Do this in commemoration of Me" mean?
- Q.893. How do the priests exercise this power of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ?
- Q.894. At what part of the Mass does the Consecration take place?