Quite a lot of words to reveal to us what we already know, in that, not only does each and every one of these passages in fact affirm the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist, unless one reads with the eyes and sees with the heart of faith, the words are gibberish.
“Quite a lot of words to reveal to us what we already know, in that, not only does each and every one of these passages in fact affirm the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist, unless one reads with the eyes and sees with the heart of faith, the words are gibberish.”
The Catholic position is transubstantiation. Therefore, the Eucharist is not a symbol of a higher reality, that takes its name of that “reality” in a “certain manner” of speaking. It is literally the blood and body of Christ. Nor is the Eucharist, in Catholic thought, bread and wine AND the body of Christ.