What Happens When You Eat the Body of Christ? (Aquinas 101) 

I'm a Candidate in RCIA and will be making my first communion on Divine Mercy Sunday. Pray for me!

Thank you to everyone who prayed for me as I entered the Church today! I was nervous, emotional, and overwhelmed by the mercy I received through the Sacraments today. I wish I had done this sooner but finally I'm home ❤❤

The more I learn about Jesus, the more I love Him.

Thank you for these Eucharist videos! My first communion is the day before Easter so please keep them coming!

I even thought this, BEFORE I became a Catholic. But now, I know WHY, i always held "going to the altar", as Protestants call it here in Denmark, in such very, very high, sacred esteem. It was the Catholic inside me, wanting to come out and blossom!

The first food of every human being is the body of his mother which he receives in her breast milk. We have received our mother's body as physical food, and we receive the body of Christ as spiritual food. How intimate Christ wants to be with us that He would nourish us with Himself!

If protestants knew what the eucharist was, I find it impossible to think they would not drop everything and come into the Church to receive it. Who wouldn't want this?

The more we receive the Eucharist daily we are changed in our inward self our soul & outward self by sgaring love to others . Makes us purer holier by the days.

the Eucharist gives me immediate peace for a few minutes and delivers me from too many thoughts each time, acting like an anxiolytics. Very surprising... Of course, I wasn't looking for that effect but I received Eucharist for the first time almost 2 weeks ago and each time, it was so much relieving and so much love inside me.

Yes. Jesus didn't mince his words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Many walked away from him when he made this statement as they couldn't come to the notion of eating Him. Jesus didn't then say, "hang on a minute, what I really meant was..." Now it all makes sense.

A common mistake when people realize Jesus' blood type is AB+ (Yes, we do know that because of eucharistic miracles) is that they say AB+ is the universal donor. That is the opposite of the truth. AB+ is the universal RECIPIENT. When we receive the body and blood of Christ, he receives us.

*_Luk 6.19 The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all._*

[Unlike other foods we eat, this food doesn't become part of us, but rather we become part of Him Whom the food is] It just doesn't get more powerful or intimate than THIS! OH, my Jesus! Thou makest me love Thee more and more 💖

My Lord and Saviour i truly love you. Please forgive me for i am a sinner, In Jesus name i pray. Amen 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪

We become what we eat!

Thanks for Fr. Dominic's clear explanation of the sacrament. I appreciate for the upload, plus I was also curious about Saint Thomas Aquinas' teaching about the eucharist. He is one of my favourite saints! I like to be catholic, and fortunately today is a Mary feast too. :) God bless Fr. Dominik and the makers of this video too! Please make further videos, if it's possible. Thanks again!

Cant get enough of bread of angels, but my church so far away. Thank you Father.

Thank you so much for creating this channel for educating the world about the Catholic faith. For sure your channel will help a lot also in educating the younger generation of this present time and the future. God bless your channel! ❤

This is true. Thank you my lovely Jesus. I adore You! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Wow, I knew that the Eucharist is the body of Christ but this is even a lot more enlightening....wow!

This is so true!It’s really hard to convince someone that hasn’t experienced it.

God bless you, Father. I must have Holy Communion more often. He gives us everything!

After having written so much about God, Thomas understood the only thing that was really important: silence.

THANK YOU SO MUCH - for this wonderful and extremely educational information about the Holy Eucharist! God bless all of us. Amen

Great video! Thank you all very much and God bless.

I am a Ruthenian Catholic. God Bless all my brothers and sisters in Christ in the Catholic Church. To all who are discerning conversion into the Catholic Church, do it! Don't let the scandals or sad state of affairs in the Church at large dissuade you. These things will pass. The Church is undergoing a trial right now across the entire world. There has never been a better time to become Catholic! Prayers on your journey and welcome to the family for all who have entered the Church this Pascha!

I've been wondering about the effects of Holy Communion lately and this is just the thing I needed. Thank you!

It felt different today when l received it..thank you.

Overwhelming closeness ! Amen 🙏

WE SHOULD DO OUR VERY BEST TO RECEIVE THE HOLY EUCHARIST WITH DEEP REVERENCE KNEELING & ON THE TONGUE. UNCONSECRATED HANDS SHOULD NOT BE TOUCHING OUR LORD JESUS, HE IS GOD. WE SHOULD ALSO BE WITHOUT MORTAL SIN. GO TO CONFESSION BEFORE RECEIVING OUR LORD JESUS. 🙏🙏🙏

it’s all awe and tears flow.

Andrew Harmon thank you! That’s always how I thought about it!!

Thank you . God Bless you .

wow… just….. wow. Utterly amazing

This is so Beautiful! 🥲🥲🥲🙏

How wonderful your explanation is! Where were you during my religion classes, in the 1960's and 1970s, in parochial school? I hope that they're doing a better job of teaching the faith than they did then. Thank you so much!

The state of American Protestantism: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross." H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America

Hi Father. Please do a video on the "principal fruit of the most holy Eucharist" per the anathema mentioned in the Council of Trent (session 13, ch. 2, canon 5). This passage seems to trouble many protestants for some reason.

POPE BENEDICT XVI: “Worship itself, Eucharistic communion, includes the reality both of being loved and of loving others in turn. A Eucharist which does not pass over into the concrete practice of love [of others] is intrinsically fragmented.” ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: “It is important to be ever mindful that communion with Christ is deeply tied to communion with our brothers and sisters. The Sunday Eucharistic gathering is an experience of brotherhood. The sign of peace is a particularly expressive gesture which the faithful are invited to make as a manifestation of the commitment to mutual love which is made in sharing the one bread.”

All of the above, provided you are in state of grace. Otherwise, no salvation.

What happens COMPLETELY depends upon whether the one who is consumed by Him is in a State of Grace - or not....🙏🏼✨👑

Thanks!

Please make a video saying what is the Res Tantum, Res et Sacramentum and Sacramentum Tantum of the other sacraments please

Thank You Lord Jesus...Amen🙏🙏🙏❤️

Beautiful

That is true. When you receive the Body (Holy Spirit) and the Blood (Light of God) we are changed by it. Thank God that the Holy Spirit is of the Father and Jesus, which is what Jesus is. The Father and Jesus are one. Stay in the Light. Receive Eucharist often. You can even do it at home. God Bless.

AMEN. thank you Jesus.

God Bless ❤

Everyone has the full authority to bless any healthy food to become a holy food, to keep you healthy and awake. AMEN.

Very inspiring

A beautiful prayer of St Thomas Aquinas: Almighty, everlasting God, lo, I draw near the Sacrament of Your Only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. As sick as I approach to the Physician of Life; unclean to the Fountain of Mercy; blind, to the Light of eternal Brightness; poor and needy, to the Lord of heaven and earth. I implore You therefore, out of the abundance of your boundless mercy, that you would enlighten my blindness; that i may receive the Bread of Angels, the King of Kings, the Lord of lords, with such reverence and humility such contrition and devotion such purity and faith, such purpose and intention, as in expedient for the health of my soul. Grant i beseech You, that i may receive not only the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, but also the whole grace and virtue of that Sacrament . O most merciful God, grant me so to receive the Body of Your Only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, which he took of the Virgin Mary that i may be found worthy to be incorporated into His Mystical Body, and accounted among His members. Most loving Father, i am now about to receive Your Son veiled in the mystery of His Sacrament. Grant that the day will come when I will see Him face to face. He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit forever, one God, world without end. AMEN! God bless you Fr Andrew. 🙏🙏🙏

So in essence the old phrase you are what you eat applies here?

Corpus Christie 🙏

@4:39 ooooooooh so that's why devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is so important!!!! She teaches us how to be worthy recepients of the body of Christ!!!!!!! WOah :D Salve Regina!!! Take me to Christ please :'D :')

AMEN!!!!🙏✝️⛪️❤

I have a question about Jesus saying that "unless you eat of my body and drink of my blood you will not have life in you, but if you do I will raise you up on the last day." Does this mean that anyone who does not receive Eucharist will not be raised up? Or only if you truly believe that the bread and wine are truly his body and blood? If you think of it a a symbol or a reminder of something will you be raised up?

In Jesus' Name Amen ✝️

I have one question on 1coronthians chapter 11 about women covering head, is it applicable in Catholic church, if not why?

Interesting! Very!! I wonder though what the intermediate effect of BAPTISM is? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

What I’ve never understood is the meaning of the frequency of eating: how much Eucharist should we consume? Do people who eat more Jesus become more holy? Wouldn’t that mean that we should be gorging ourselves on Jesus all the time? And yet in times past, people received the Eucharist much less frequently that we did - sometimes only once a year. Were our ancestors less holy because of frequency of their consumption? Why is it that some daily Mass goers are less holy than those who only go once a week? And if this answer to this is “the faith receiving the Eucharist”, then our frequency of consumption isn’t relevant, and a person need only commune once with true faith.

If the eucharist changes the body, why does the body need the eucharist again (each day or week)? And if taking it multiple times is indeed required, then why not receive the eucharist multiple times a day?

You become saved per John 6 : 63 and Peters comment.

❤ Amen

I hope I can get answers for some question. I know I am splitting hair, but I just really want honest answers. This is the question. The Eucharist is the whole Christ, body and soul, human and divinity. Right? But It is Christ in which stage? Before the cross? Or After the cross? For Christ before the cross has a mortal body. If His body was immortal, He couldn’t die on the cross, and therefore won’t achieved the sacrifice/ atonement for our sins. If we partake of that mortal body, well then we received a mortal body, that could die to sin, how is it then that we receive immortality through a mortal body. On the other hand, if what we partake is the resurrected body of Christ, as St. Paul said It is a glorified immortal body, thus receiving that immortal body we indeed will receive immortality, but the question is Christ died only once, He did not sacrifice his immortal body. After the cross there is no second cross or alike. His immortal body is in heaven. Then how is it in the Eucharist? I really want to have answers.

Anyone know what font is used in the video?

Will receiving eucharist protect us from demons?

I fight with scrupulosity.

If this is true, why are the people at my parish still as likely to bicker over things as non-Catholics, still think that we don't need to share our wealth (ref. Acts 5) and still prefer to spend their weekend with their apostatized family rather than their Christian family?

Is it right to say that the purpose of the eucharist is to make Christ's flesh and our flesh into one flesh? I mean, is it right to say that by eating Christ's body, the purpose is to transform my body into Christ's body? By that we would participate of the hypostatic union?

I please need an informed Catholic to help me understand this. I have celiac disease, I cannot eat gluten (wheat protein). Therefore I cannot eat the wafer, because despite the Church's insistence that this clearly symbolic wafer actually IS the body of Christ, it would make me sick if I ate it. Are you saying I am allergic to the body of Christ? Please tell me why the Church doesn't allow gluten-free communion wafers, or at least can we drop the idea that it actually becomes the body of Christ? Please consider how insensitive that is to those of us who can't eat it.

Scientifically speaking, i would like to test charity as a human behavior and test it out on people who have had the eucharist

The miracle of the Euchrist has been proven 100% by scientists who didn't know what they were researching. Its was shown to be from the heart of man who was suffering an intense beating. See Father Alar's video on this amazing story of 4 independent scientists findings. Eucharistic Miracles. Praise Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Where do we get Eucharist?

I would rather have a choice to sever my connection to all forms of pain and suffering, without a need for redeption from sin. Because it doesn't matter how sinless you try to be, you suffer and die because of it.

I know ... Key word ; That Jesus is present in The Blessed Sacrament. There was a time before I knew that I was just fighting for faith in the real presence based on second grade catechesis for my first Holy communion. I wonder how many Catholics having yet to receive a Eucharistic miracle might be in the same boat I was in just fighting for faith in the real presence So for that I give this testimony.......I know Jesus is present in The blessed Sacrament and The atomic bomb like Healing Power He has . Pray to the Lord with undivided feelings about Him being present in blessed sacrament or not is my advice to all with ears . That is what I did and I was physically healed of a bad sore in my mouth Instantly. ✝️🕊️

The Question is how The physical body fit to Spiritual body?

This was an interesting video, but I fear it leads to some troubling consequences; if the Eucharist is really as special as this video claims here, then why are so many Catholics unchanged by it? Why does Catholic and Christian witness remain so poor despite the consumption of the Eucharist? As Trent Horn has noted in his _Devil's Advocate_ debate book, there really seems to be a tension here that can be characterized in terms of the meager moral fruits argument.

The orthodox Christians believe the exact same thing about the Eucharist

Eucharist is awesome; no more symbolic “communion” for me

However, the Eucharist consists of the bread and the WINE. Are Catholic trying to change the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Last Supper?

John 6:63 It is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.

It ALWAYS sticks to the roof of your mouth, in fact often times I think this is at least partly the reason why they put the humilia right after the comunion, so people just listen to the priest and nothing more since they've got the ostia stuck to the roof of their mouths and are busy unsticking it. 😆

What happens ? I get stomach cramps.

When we eat the body of Christ we become the part of the body of Christ. Then our sin became the sin of Christ. This is the reason for the death of Christ. Since he resurrected from death we also participated in his resurrection 🎉

So….. your understanding changes…..how has this 😮understanding chang😂d you ? Your heart ,your thoughts, about what to do say feel….. Understanding of concept must produce FRUIT….. talk of it please .

Nowhere in Scripture does God say we eat the body and blood of Christ. Luke 22:17-20 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, "Take this and share it among yourselves; [18] for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes." [19] And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." [20] And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood." Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of Me." and He also said, referring to the wine, that He would not drink it again until the kingdom of God comes. He was not turning the bread and wine into His body and blood.

Deception...

Aquino

The Eucharist changed me so much that I became an atheist

Who can tell me why to eat the body and drink the blood ? Sounds horrible

Mark 16:15-16: Jesus commanded to teach the gospel. The disobedient catholic church instead taught it's concocted doctrines.

Cannibalism is outlawed.

Is this a magic that transforms an angel to Satan! It sounds so in practise.

Its obvious that the bread and wine represents jesus as the true sacrifice, the high priest always made a animal blood sacrifice, jesus is our true high priest , for the sins of his own people.

The points that you're making a valid but one thing that you didn't say You didn't talk about what Jesus said to say go through in the early 1200s the 3rd century. When Jesus told Saint Gertrude that anyone who receives holy communion in the hand it is instant death to that soul. You're talking about Saints and doctors of the church there's nothing wrong with that. But Jesus himself is over everything anyone in any world in any realm visible and invisible. So you can go on quoting Saints that's fine but Jesus Christ is the one who is to be obeyed. Showing Jesus Christ says anyone who receives Holy Communion in hand it is instant death to the soul. That's something that needs to be mentioned every time you talk about the whole Holy Eucharist. What should also be mentioned every time a video is done about the Holy Eucharist and receiving Holy Communion is a person should never receive Holy Communion without going to confession first and receiving Absolution during dependence from the priest. If a person does not go to confession you do not receive Holy Communion. There's no way around this. A person can do a spiritual communion but you can never receive the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist without going to confession first that in itself is a mortal sin. When a person does go to confession and confesses sincerely and received absolution receives advice from the priest and does the Penance that is prescribed by the priest of the penitent. Then that person goes and does the penance. Then when that person it's going to receive Holy Communion at the end of the mass they can only receive it from a heterosexual male priest or higher clergy and only on the tongue. That is it. A person can never receive holy communion in the hand by priest or any higher clergy and a person can never receive Holy Communion by a Eucharistic Minister gay straight man or woman. Eucharistic ministers do not have ordination and their hands are not consecrated. I don't care what kind of law says because things have been waffling back and forth for centuries. But this video You're mentioning certain Saints and doctors of the church and they've all said that you cannot receive Holy Communion in hand. I go by with Jesus says when he says the Saint Gertrude about receiving Holy Communion hand is death to that soul. Even though there have been Saints and popes that stated that a layperson does not have ordination so they cannot touch the Holy Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians chapter 11 everyone should read it. Read what it says about the Lord's Supper. Here is what the Apostle Paul is saying one Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 through 31 23 For I received from the Lord the teaching that I passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a piece of bread, 24 gave thanks to God, broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me.” 25 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup and said, “This cup is God's new covenant, sealed with my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me.” 26 This means that every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 27 It follows that if one of you eats the Lord's bread or drinks from his cup in a way that dishonors him, you are guilty of sin against the Lord's body and blood. 28 So then, you should each examine yourself first, and then eat the bread and drink from the cup. 29 For if you do not recognize the meaning of the Lord's body when you eat the bread and drink from the cup, you bring judgment on yourself as you eat and drink. 30 That is why many of you are sick and weak, and several have died. 31 If we would examine ourselves first, we would not come under God's judgment. 32 But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

He says, "Love for God, love for Jesus, and love for each other," but I thought you guys believed that Jesus was God? Christianity is riddled with contradictions.

Catholics are taught that the Lord Jesus returns to the earth every day to continue His work of redemption on altars around the world. The Catechism teaches the Eucharist contains "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." Catholic priest John O'Brien describes it this way: "When the priest announces the words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of saints and angels. The priest speaks and Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest's command." According to God's Word, the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is utterly and completely false and those who worship it are committing the most serious sin of idolatry. The Lord Jesus warned, “If anyone says to you, ‘behold here is the Christ’ do not believe him.” (Mat. 24:23). We know Jesus does not return everyday because God's Word says He “will appear a second time, not to deal with sin” (Heb. 9:28). He will not return until “immediately after the tribulation” (Mat. 24:29-30). And yes, He will return in a body, not a wafer, "the same way as you saw him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11).

If you think carefully Christ is there, it's like a duty for him to be there at any Christian mass, and you can see what's happening. Use kabbalistic analysis if unsure.

Catholics listen to catholic men and ignore the Word of God. No where did Jesus say that anyone but Jesus could change wine into His blood or bread into His body. Not one of the chosen Apostles of Jesus said that they changed bread or wine into anything.

Firstly, you do NOT eat THE literary body, THE very flesh of Christ. Jesus HIMSELF tells us in John 6:63 these words: “It is THE SPIRIT THAT QUICKENETH; THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: the WORDS that I speak unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT, AND THEY ARE LIFE.” Therefore, those that consider eating THE very body, THE flesh of Christ, according to His own words “PROFITETH NOTHING.” Even if it will possible to eat the very flesh of Jesus, they profiteth NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING. Then we read in 1 Corinthians 11:26 these words: “As ye eat THIS BREAD, and drink THIS CUP, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.” See? He doesn’t say here that when you eat His flesh and drink His blood; but He says in here specifically when you eat “THIS BREAD and drink THIS CUP”. Secondly, Jesus does NOT say that something, one or the other thing HEPPANS to the eater. NO, NOT so. But He says in the above Bible verse, that when you eat THIS BREAD and drink THIS cup “ye DO SHEW (NOT that it is anything happening in you or with you) the Lord's death till he comes.”