The Eucharist & the Poor

In this year of eucharistic revival, it is worth asking if one of the reasons that so many Catholics now say that they do not believe in the eucharistic Real Presence is that this ancient and intrinsic dimension of eucharistic realism has been overlooked. The full impact of the Real Presence is thereby diminished; it becomes fetishized as a sacred object that Catholics have and others don’t. But this almost sectarian approach is contrary to the dynamism of transubstantiation itself, which turns the Church outward to the world that God “so loved that he gave His only-begotten Son” (John 3:16), who, out of mercy, “emptied himself and took on the form of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). Read Full Article »