Season 4. Ep 98. Receiving the Eucharist

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This week on Physically Spiritual is the summit of the series on food with the Eucharist.

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“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." 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." "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.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1374 - https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/348/#zoom=z

“God is in all things by His power, inasmuch as all things are subject to His power; He is by His presence in all things, as all things are bare and open to His eyes; He is in all things by His essence, inasmuch as He is present to all as the cause of their being.” St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I.8.3 - https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1008.htm

National Eucharistic Revival - https://www.eucharisticrevival.org

Pew Research Study - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/05/transubstantiation-eucharist-u-s-catholics/

“This is the meaning of the Church's affirmation that the sacraments act ex opere operato (literally: "by the very fact of the action's being performed"), i.e., by virtue of the saving work of Christ, accomplished once for all. It follows that "the sacrament is not wrought by the righteousness of either the celebrant or the recipient, but by the power of God." From the moment that a sacrament is celebrated in accordance with the intention of the Church, the power of Christ and his Spirit acts in and through it, independently of the personal holiness of the minister. Nevertheless, the fruits of the sacraments also depend on the disposition of the one who receives them.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1128 - https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/294/#zoom=z

The Eucharist | Physically Spiritual 36 - https://www.becominggift.com/post/the-eucharist-physically-spiritual-s2e10

Time Stamps

1:30 What is the Eucharist?

5:45 The National Eucharistic Revival

7:45 How the Eucharist Changes Us

12:00 From the Work Worked

17:45 Disposing Yourself to Receive Grace

20:45. What the Eucharist “Says” to Human Nature