At the time that Yeshua instituted his ‘supper,’ he made it plain that it is symbolic, as the logical, spirit filled mind would concur. He held the ordinary bread in his still living hands, saying “This do in remembrance of me.”
The pagan, humanist position of the RCC is of courrse no surprise, in view of their other human traditionalist excursions form the plain words of Yeshua.
The Catholic Church I attend is Maronite, from the ancient city of Antioch. The words of consecration are chanted in the language of Jesus - Aramaic. Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, had over 30 words for "represent," but Jesus did not use any of them. He used the Aramaic word for "estin" which means "is."