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Lesson 23

Transubstantiation

Transubstantiation is the teaching that the bread and wine at Mass cease to be in substance bread and wine and transform into the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, while retaining the accidental forms of bread and wine.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Eucharist
Essential Lessons

Day 1 & 2

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Substance
    :
    A philosophical term that refers to what a thing is, or what is absolutely necessary to a thing being the thing that it is. In the Eucharist, the substance of bread and wine is changed into the substance of Christ’s Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. (1413)
  • Matter
    :
    The physical material used or the action performed in the Sacrament.
  • Agent
    :
    A philosophical term that refers to who or what made or caused a thing to exist.
  • Purpose
    :
    A philosophical term that refers to what a thing is for or is meant to do.
  • Accidents
    :
    Accidents are the characteristics of an object that do not change what it is.
  • Transubstantiation
    :
    A transformation of substance. It is the word used to describe the changing of the bread and wine during Mass into the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. (1413)
  • words of Consecration
    :
    The words Jesus said at the Last Supper to change the bread and wine into His Body and Blood. These same words are spoken by the priest during the Eucharistic Prayer to change bread and wine into the Eucharist.

    • Plan

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    Lesson 23 Absent Student Handout
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