Katekismo Corner: On the most Blessed Sacrament: No. 28

On the Most Blessed Sacrament Around the year 750, a Basilian Monk was celebrating Mass at the Church of St. Longinus in Lanciano, Italy, and as he had said the words of consecration, the host and wine physically changed into flesh and blood. That monk was more into science than faith and had doubts on the doctrine of Transubstantiation and the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Until the present time, the flesh and blood have remained incorrupt even without refrigeration and preservatives. The flesh, which is of human cardiac tissue, and the type AB blood, are placed in a beautiful silver and glass monstrance at the Church of San Francesco in Lanciano. The dogma of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist states that at the words of consecration during the Holy Mass, Jesus becomes truly present, flesh and blood, in the eucharisted bread and wine. Not just symbolically nor metaphorically, but Real Presence. Not that the presence of Jesus in a congregation gathered in...