Ecclesia de Eucharistia ( the Church lives of Eucharistie ) is a Encyclique published by Jean-Paul II, on April 17th 2003, on the Eucharistie in his report/ratio with the Église.

Here is a significant extract:

“By the dedication of the bread and the wine takes place the change of all the Substance of the bread in the Substance of the body of Christ our Lord and all the substance of the wine in the substance of its blood; this change, the Catholic church precisely and exactly called it Transsubstantiation. ” (Council of Thirty, quoted in the Encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia , 2003, chap.1 §15)

See too

Related articles

• Eucharistie

• Transsubstantiation
• Cène
• Passion
• the Blessed Sacrament
• Substance
• Council of Thirty
• Importance of the base and metaphysics in the Encyclical Fides and ratio .

External bond

French text of the encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia on the official site of the Holy See