V. The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence

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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.”¹⁹⁹
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.”²⁰⁰ “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.”²⁰¹

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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