Transubstantiation - wikipedia Transubstantiation Part of a series on the Eucharist Lord 's Supper Communion Elements Bread Wine Ritual and liturgy Divine Liturgy Divine Service Mass Requiem Solem Consecration / Anaphora Epiclesis Words of Institution Anamnesis Practices and customs Closed and Open Table Communion under both kinds Adoration Discipline Thanksgiving Reserved sacrament Feast of Corpus Christi First Communion Infant communion Viaticum Vessels Paten Chalice History Origin of the Eucharist Catholic historical roots Theology Real presence Consubstantiation Impanation Metousiosis Receptionism Sacramental union Transignification Transubstantiation Memorialism Sacrament Ordinance Denominational teachings Anglican Catholic Latter - day Saint Lutheran Related articles Black Mass Christian views on alcohol Host desecration Transubstantiation ( in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek μετουσίωσις metousiosis ) is, according to the teachings of the Catholic Church, the change of substance by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus. The Catholic Church teaches that the substance, or essence, of the Eucharistic offering is changed into both the body and blood of Christ. Belief in this doctrine was made obligatory by the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215, and was later challenged by various 15th century reformers -- John Wycliffe in particular. The manner in which the change occurs, the Catholic Church teaches, is a mystery : `` The signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ. '' The precise terminology to be used to refer to the nature of the Eucharist, and its theological implications, has a contentious history especially in the Protestant Reformation. In the Greek Orthodox Church, the doctrine has been discussed under the term of metousiosis, coined as a direct loan - translation of transsubstantiatio in the 17th century. In Eastern Orthodoxy in general, the Sacred Mystery ( Sacrament ) of the Eucharist is more commonly discussed using alternative terms such as `` trans - elementation '' ( μεταστοιχείωσις, metastoicheiosis ), `` re-ordination '' ( μεταρρύθμισις, metarrhythmisis ), or simply `` change '' ( μεταβολή, metabole ). Contents 1 History 1.1 Patristic period 1.2 Middle Ages 1.3 Reformation 1.3. 1 Council of Trent 2 Theology 2.1 Roman Catholic Church 2.2 Eastern Christianity 2.3 Protestantism 2.3. 1 Anglicanism 2.3. 2 Lutheranism 2.3. 3 Reformed churches 2.3. 4 Methodism 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History Patristic period A 3rd - century fresco in the Catacomb of Callixtus, interpreted by the archaeologist Joseph Wilpert as showing on the left Jesus multiplying bread and fish, a symbol of the Eucharistic consecration, and on the right a representation of the deceased, who through participation in the Eucharist has obtained eternal happiness The belief that the bread and wine that form the matter of the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ appears to have been widespread from an early date, with early Christian writers and referring to them as his body and the blood. They speak of them as the same flesh and blood which suffered and died on the cross. The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, `` Let no one eat or drink of the Thanksgiving ( Eucharist ) with you except those who have been baptized in the Name of the Lord, for it was in reference to this that the Lord said, ' Do not give that which is holy to dogs ' ( Matthew 7 : 6 ). '' A letter by Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the Romans, written in about AD 106 says : `` I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ. '' Writing to the Christians of Smyrna in the same year, he warned them to `` stand aloof from such heretics '', because, among other reasons, `` they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. '' In about 150, Justin Martyr, referring to the Eucharist, wrote : `` Not as common bread and common drink do we receive these ; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Savior, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh. '' Justin Martyr wrote, in the Dialogue with Trypho, ch 70 : `` Now it is evident, that in this prophecy ( allusion is made ) to the bread which our Christ gave us to eat, in remembrance of His being made flesh for the sake of His believers, for whom also He suffered ; and to the cup which He gave us to drink, in remembrance of His own blood, with giving of thanks. '' In about 200 AD, Tertullian wrote : `` Having taken the bread and given it to His disciples, He made it His own body, by saying, This is my body, that is, the figure of my body. A figure, however, there could not have been, unless there were first a veritable body. An empty thing, or phantom, is incapable of a figure. If, however, ( as Marcion might say ) He pretended the bread was His body, because He lacked the truth of bodily substance, it follows that He must have given bread for us. '' The Apostolic Constitutions ( compiled c. 380 ) says : `` Let the bishop give the oblation, saying, The body of Christ ; and let him that receiveth say, Amen. And let the deacon take the cup ; and when he gives it, say, The blood of Christ, the cup of life ; and let him that drinketh say, Amen. '' Saint Ambrose of Milan ( d. 397 ) wrote : Perhaps you will say, `` I see something else, how is it that you assert that I receive the Body of Christ ? ''... Let us prove that this is not what nature made, but what the blessing consecrated, and the power of blessing is greater than that of nature, because by blessing nature itself is changed... For that sacrament which you receive is made what it is by the word of Christ. But if the word of Elijah had such power as to bring down fire from heaven, shall not the word of Christ have power to change the nature of the elements ?... Why do you seek the order of nature in the Body of Christ, seeing that the Lord Jesus Himself was born of a Virgin, not according to nature ? It is the true Flesh of Christ which was crucified and buried, this is then truly the Sacrament of His Body. The Lord Jesus Himself proclaims : `` This Is My Body. '' Before the blessing of the heavenly words another nature is spoken of, after the consecration the Body is signified. He Himself speaks of His Blood. Before the consecration it has another name, after it is called Blood. And you say, Amen, that is, It is true. Let the heart within confess what the mouth utters, let the soul feel what the voice speaks. '' Other fourth - century Christian writers say that in the Eucharist there occurs a `` change '', `` transelementation '', `` transformation '', `` transposing '', `` alteration '' of the bread into the body of Christ. In AD 400, Augustine quotes Cyprian ( AD 200 ) : `` For as Christ says ' I am the true vine, ' it follows that the blood of Christ is wine, not water ; and the cup can not appear to contain His blood by which we are redeemed and quickened, if the wine be absent ; for by the wine is the blood of Christ typified,... '' Middle ages The Last Supper ( upper image ) and preparatory washing of feet ( lower image ) in a 1220 manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek The doctrine of transubstantiation is the result of a theological dispute started in the 11th century, when Berengar of Tours denied that any material change in the elements was needed to explain the Eucharistic Presence, thereby provoking a considerable stir. Berengar 's position was never diametrically opposed to that of his critics, and he was probably never excommunicated, but the controversies that he aroused ( see Stercoranism ) forced people to clarify the doctrine of the Eucharist. The earliest known use of the term `` transubstantiation '' to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours, in the 11th century. By the end of the 12th century the term was in widespread use. The Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215 spoke of the bread and wine as `` transubstantiated '' into the body and blood of Christ : `` His body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been transubstantiated, by God 's power, into his body and blood ''. It was only later, in the 13th century, that Aristotelian metaphysics was accepted and a philosophical elaboration in line with that metaphysics was developed, which found classic formulation in the teaching of Thomas Aquinas. '' Reformation During the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation was heavily criticised as an Aristotelian `` pseudophilosophy '' imported into Christian teaching and jettisoned in favor of Martin Luther 's doctrine of sacramental union, or in favor, per Huldrych Zwingli, of the Eucharist as memorial. Title page of Martin Luther 's De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae In the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation became a matter of much controversy. Martin Luther held that `` It is not the doctrine of transubstantiation which is to be believed, but simply that Christ really is present at the Eucharist ''. In his `` On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church '' ( published on 6 October 1520 ) Luther wrote : Therefore, it is an absurd and unheard - of juggling with words, to understand `` bread '' to mean `` the form, or accidents of bread, '' and `` wine '' to mean `` the form, or accidents of wine. '' Why do they not also understand all other things to mean their forms, or accidents ? Even if this might be done with all other things, it would yet not be right thus to emasculate the words of God and arbitrarily to empty them of their meaning. Moreover, the Church had the true faith for more than twelve hundred years, during which time the holy Fathers never once mentioned this transubstantiation -- certainly, a monstrous word for a monstrous idea -- until the pseudo-philosophy of Aristotle became rampant in the Church these last three hundred years. During these centuries many other things have been wrongly defined, for example, that the Divine essence neither is begotten nor begets, that the soul is the substantial form of the human body, and the like assertions, which are made without reason or sense, as the Cardinal of Cambray himself admits. In his 1528 Confession Concerning Christ 's Supper he wrote : Why then should we not much more say in the Supper, `` This is my body '', even though bread and body are two distinct substances, and the word `` this '' indicates the bread ? Here, too, out of two kinds of objects a union has taken place, which I shall call a `` sacramental union '', because Christ 's body and the bread are given to us as a sacrament. This is not a natural or personal union, as is the case with God and Christ. It is also perhaps a different union from that which the dove has with the Holy Spirit, and the flame with the angel, but it is also assuredly a sacramental union. What Luther thus called a `` sacramental union '' is often erroneously called consubstantiation by non-Lutherans. In `` On the Babylonian Captivity '', Luther upheld belief in the Real Presence of Jesus and, in his 1523 treatise The Adoration of the Sacrament, defended adoration of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. Huldrych Zwingli taught that the sacrament is purely symbolic and memorial in character, arguing that this was the meaning of Jesus ' instruction : `` Do this in remembrance of me ''. The 39 articles of 1563, the Church of England declared : `` Transubstantiation ( or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine ) in the Supper of the Lord, can not be proved by holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions '' ; and made Mass illegal. Council of Trent In 1551, the Council of Trent confirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation as Catholic dogma, stating that `` by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation. '' In its 13th session ending 11 October 1551, the Council defined transubstantiation as `` that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood -- the species only of the bread and wine remaining -- which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation ''. This council officially approved use of the term `` transubstantiation '' to express the Catholic Church 's teaching on the subject of the conversion of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, with the aim of safeguarding Christ 's presence as a literal truth, while emphasizing the fact that there is no change in the empirical appearances of the bread and wine. It did not however impose the Aristotelian theory of substance and accidents : it spoke only of the species ( the appearances ), not the philosophical term `` accidents '', and the word `` substance '' was in ecclesiastical use for many centuries before Aristotelian philosophy was adopted in the West, as shown for instance by its use in the Nicene Creed which speaks of Christ having the same `` οὐσία '' ( Greek ) or `` substantia '' ( Latin ) as the Father. Theology Further information : Eucharistic theology and Real presence Roman Catholic Church Further information : Substance theory The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament ( Raphael 1509 - 1510 ) depicts theologians debating Transubstantiation, including four Doctors of the Church, with Pope Gregory I and Jerome seated to the left of the altar and Augustine and Ambrose to the right, Pope Julius II, Pope Sixtus IV, Savonarola and Dante Alighieri. The distinction between `` substance '' and `` accidents '' - the latter term is not used in the Catholic Church 's official definition of the doctrine but has been used in the writings of theologians - arose from Aristotelian philosophy, but in Roman Catholic eucharistic theology is independent of that philosophy, since the distinction is a real one, as shown by the distinction between a person and that person 's accidental appearances. `` Substance '' here means what something is in itself, its essence. A hat 's shape is not the hat itself, nor is its colour, size, softness to the touch, nor anything else about it perceptible to the senses. The hat itself ( the `` substance '' ) has the shape, the color, the size, the softness and the other appearances, but is distinct from them. While the appearances, which are also referred to, though not in the Church 's official teaching, by the philosophical term ' accidents ', are perceptible to the senses, the substance is not. When, at his Last Supper, Jesus said : `` This is my body '', what he held in his hands still had all the appearances of bread : the `` species '' remained unchanged. However, the Roman Catholic Church teaches that, when Jesus made that declaration, the underlying reality ( the `` substance '' ) of the bread was changed into that of his body. In other words, it actually was his body, while all the appearances open to the senses or to scientific investigation were still those of bread, exactly as before. The Catholic Church holds that the same change of the substance of the bread and of the wine occurs at the consecration of the Eucharist when the words are spoken in persona Christi `` This is my body... this is my blood. '' In Orthodox confessions, the change is said to start during the Dominical or Lord 's Words or Institution Narrative and be completed during the Epiklesis. Orthodox from the period of Dominican - Orthodox controversies ( witnessed by Nicholas Cabasilas ) until the Council of Florence and the `` libellus ( booklet ) '' of Mark of Ephesus, held for a double moment of consecration at the words `` This is my body / blood '' and the epiclesis. Despite the fact that this was a normative interpretation of the De sacraments and De mysteries of St. Ambrose, as early as Paschasius Radbertus ( Ps. - Augustine ), John Torquemada opposed the Orthodox position at the Council of Florence. This is all the more ironic since he cited Paschasius Radbertus ( as if Augustine ) in his Sermo alter in the Acta Latina in order to refute emperor John VIII ( who was relying on Mark of Ephesus `` libellus '' ). The end result was that, though authors from Radbertus until St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio held for the consecratory potential of the epiclesis, Torquemada represented the Dominican position as universal and non-controversial among the Latins. In fact, Torquemada 's overconfidence was the result of having studied the works of Pope Benedict XII in his debates against Mark of Ephesus in Ferrara in 1437. Therein, Benedict condemned an alleged Armenian theory ( never verified among any of the dozen or so Armenian commentaries from the period ) that denied all consecratory value to the words of institution and confined the consecration ONLY to the epiclesis ( not the Byzantine position ). Lastly, the Armenians were alleged to hold that the eucharistic change was not substantial and only imperfect and typological, and therefore not transubstantiation. The arguments, that Benedict XII 's letter to the missionaries ( c. 1340 ) addressed, relied on Aquinas ' premises, which was no surprise given Benedict and Pope Clement VI thomistic preferences. However, these arguments were confused for the Byzantine position from Cabasilas to Florence and are still grossly misunderstood among modern and contemporary scholars when attempting to speak of Catholic - Orthodox differences. Teaching that Christ is risen from the dead and is alive, the Catholic Church holds that when the bread is changed into his body, not only his body is present, but Christ as a whole is present ( i.e. body and blood, soul and divinity. ) The same holds for the wine changed into his blood. This teaching goes beyond the doctrine of transubstantiation, which directly concerns only the change of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. In accordance with the dogmatic teaching that Christ is really, truly and substantially present under the remaining appearances of bread and wine, and continues to be present as long as those appearances remain, the Catholic Church preserves the consecrated elements, generally in a church tabernacle, for administering Holy Communion to the sick and dying, and also for the secondary, but still highly prized, purpose of adoring Christ present in the Eucharist. The Roman Catholic Church declares that the doctrine of transubstantiation is concerned with what is changed, and not how the change occurs ; it teaches that the appearances ( the `` species '' ) that remain are real, not an illusion, and that Christ is `` really, truly, and substantially present '' in the Eucharist. To touch the smallest particle of the host or the smallest droplet from the chalice is to touch Jesus Christ himself, as when one person touches another on the back of the hand with only a fingertip and in so doing touches not merely a few skin cells but touches the whole person : `` Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ. '' In the arguments which characterised the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in the 16th century, the Council of Trent declared subject to the ecclesiastical penalty of anathema anyone who : `` denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue '' and anyone who `` saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood - the species only of the bread and wine remaining - which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation, let him be anathema. '' As already stated, the Roman Catholic Church asserts that the `` species '' that remain are real. In the sacrament these are the signs of the reality that they efficaciously signify, not symbols. And by definition sacraments are `` efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Catholic Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. '' In The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist : The Eucharist and Its Effects ( 2000 - 2012 ), James H. Dobbins, citing the work This Tremendous Lover ( 1989 ), by Dom Eugene Boylan, expresses the paradox of Holy Communion : `` Ordinary food is consumed and becomes that which consumes it. In the Eucharist, we consume God and become that which we consume. '' According to Catholic teaching, the whole of Christ, body and blood, soul and divinity, is in the sacrament, under each of the appearances of bread and wine and in each part of the appearances of bread and wine ( since the substance of bread or wine is in each part of ordinary bread or wine, and the substance of Christ is in each part of the consecrated and transubstantiated elements of the host and the cup of the sacrament ), but he is not in the sacrament as in a place and is not moved when the sacrament is moved. He is perceptible neither by the sense nor by the imagination, but only by the intellectual eye. St. Thomas Aquinas gave poetic expression to this perception in the devotional hymn Adoro te devote : Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore, Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art. Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived : How says trusty hearing ? that shall be believed. What God 's Son has told me, take for truth I do ; Truth himself speaks truly or there 's nothing true. -- English translation of Adoro Te Devote Eastern christianity This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2016 ) Main article : Metousiosis As the Disputation of the Holy Sacrament took place in the Western Church after the Great Schism, the Eastern Churches remained largely unaffected by it. The debate on the nature of `` transubstantiation '' in Greek Orthodoxy begins in the 17th century, with Cyril Lucaris, whose The Eastern Confession of the Orthodox Faith was published in Latin in 1629. The Greek term metousiosis ( μετουσίωσις ) is first used as the translation of Latin transubstantiatio in the Greek edition of the work, published in 1633. The Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches, along with the Assyrian Church of the East, agree that in a valid Divine Liturgy bread and wine truly and actually become the body and blood of Christ. In Orthodox confessions, the change is said to start during the Liturgy of Preparation and be completed during the Epiklesis. However, there are official church documents that speak of a `` change '' ( in Greek μεταβολή ) or `` metousiosis '' ( μετουσίωσις ) of the bread and wine. `` Μετ - ουσί - ωσις '' ( met - ousi - osis ) is the Greek word used to represent the Latin word `` trans - substanti - atio '', as Greek `` μετα - μόρφ - ωσις '' ( meta - morph - osis ) corresponds to Latin `` trans - figur - atio ''. Examples of official documents of the Eastern Orthodox Church that use the term `` μετουσίωσις '' or `` transubstantiation '' are the Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church ( question 340 ) and the declaration by the Eastern Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 : `` In the celebration of ( the Eucharist ) we believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be present. He is not present typically, nor figuratively, nor by superabundant grace, as in the other Mysteries, nor by a bare presence, as some of the Fathers have said concerning Baptism, or by impanation, so that the Divinity of the Word is united to the set forth bread of the Eucharist hypostatically, as the followers of Luther most ignorantly and wretchedly suppose. But ( he is present ) truly and really, so that after the consecration of the bread and of the wine, the bread is transmuted, transubstantiated, converted and transformed into the true Body Itself of the Lord, Which was born in Bethlehem of the ever - Virgin, was baptized in the Jordan, suffered, was buried, rose again, was received up, sits at the right hand of the God and Father, and is to come again in the clouds of Heaven ; and the wine is converted and transubstantiated into the true Blood Itself of the Lord, Which as He hung upon the Cross, was poured out for the life of the world. It should be noted, that the way in which the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ has never been dogmatically defined by the Eastern Orthodox Churches. However, St Theodore the Studite writes in his treatise On the Holy Icons : `` for we confess that the faithful receive the very body and blood of Christ, according to the voice of God himself. '' This was a refutation of the iconoclasts, who insisted that the eucharist was the only true icon of Christ. Thus, it can be argued that by being part of the dogmatic `` horos '' against the iconoclast heresy, the teaching on the `` real presence '' of Christ in the eucharist is indeed a dogma of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Protestantism Anglicanism Official writings of the churches of the Anglican Communion have consistently affirmed Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, a term that includes a belief in the corporeal presence, the sacramental union, as well as several other eucharistic theologies. Elizabeth I, as part of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, gave royal assent to the Thirty - Nine Articles of Religion, which sought to distinguish Anglican from Roman Church doctrine. The Articles declared that `` Transubstantiation ( or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine ) in the Supper of the Lord, can not be proved by holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions. '' The Elizabethan Settlement accepted the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament, but refused to define it, preferring to leave it a mystery. Indeed, for many years it was illegal in Britain to hold public office whilst believing in transubstantiation, as under the Test Act of 1673. Archbishop John Tillotson decried the `` real barbarousness of this Sacrament and Rite of our Religion '', considering it a great impiety to believe that people who attend Holy Communion `` verily eat and drink the natural flesh and blood of Christ. And what can any man do more unworthily towards a Friend ? How can he possibly use him more barbarously, than to feast upon his living flesh and blood ? '' ( Discourse against Transubstantiation, London 1684, 35 ). In the Church of England today, clergy are required to assent that the 39 Articles have borne witness to the Christian faith. Anglicans generally consider no teaching binding that, according to the Articles, `` can not be found in Holy Scripture or proved thereby '', and are not unanimous in the interpretation of such passages as John, Chapter 6, and 1 Corinthians 11, although all Anglicans affirm a view of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist : some Anglicans ( especially Anglo - Catholics and some other High Church Anglicans ) hold to a belief in the corporeal presence while Evangelical Anglicans hold to a belief in the pneumatic presence. As with all Anglicans, Anglo - Catholics and other High Church Anglicans historically held belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist but were `` hostile to the doctrine of transubstantiation ''. However, in the first half of the twentieth century, the Catholic Propaganda Society upheld both Article XXVIII and the doctrine of transubstantiation, stating that the 39 Articles specifically condemn a pre-Council of Trent `` interpretation which was included by some under the term Transubstantiation '' in which `` the bread and wine were only left as a delusion of the senses after consecration '' ; it stated that `` this Council propounded its definition after the Articles were written, and so can not be referred to by them ''. Theological dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church has produced common documents that speak of `` substantial agreement '' about the doctrine of the Eucharist : the ARCIC Windsor Statement of 1971, and its 1979 Elucidation. Remaining arguments can be found in the Church of England 's pastoral letter : The Eucharist : Sacrament of Unity. Lutheranism Lutherans explicitly reject transubstantiation believing that the bread and wine remain fully bread and fully wine while also being truly the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Lutheran churches instead emphasize the sacramental union ( not exactly the consubstantiation, as is often claimed ) and believe that within the Eucharistic celebration the body and blood of Jesus Christ are objectively present `` in, with, and under the forms '' of bread and wine ( cf. Book of Concord ). They place great stress on Jesus ' instructions to `` take and eat '', and `` take and drink '', holding that this is the proper, divinely ordained use of the sacrament, and, while giving it due reverence, scrupulously avoid any actions that might indicate or lead to superstition or unworthy fear of the sacrament. Reformed Churches Classical Presbyterianism held Calvin 's view of `` pneumatic presence '' or `` spiritual feeding '', a real presence by the Spirit for those who have faith. John Calvin `` can be regarded as occupying a position roughly midway between '' the doctrines of Martin Luther on one hand and Huldrych Zwingli on the other. He taught that `` the thing that is signified is effected by its sign '', declaring : `` Believers ought always to live by this rule : whenever they see symbols appointed by the Lord, to think and be convinced that the truth of the thing signified is surely present there. For why should the Lord put in your hand the symbol of his body, unless it was to assure you that you really participate in it ? And if it is true that a visible sign is given to us to seal the gift of an invisible thing, when we have received the symbol of the body, let us rest assured that the body itself is also given to us. '' He quoted Augustine in his harmony of the Synoptic Gospels on Mark 14 : 22 - 25, `` Judas ate bread with the Lord, but did not eat the Lord with the bread. '' The Westminster Shorter Catechism summarises the teaching : Q. What is the Lord 's supper ? A. The Lord 's supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Christ 's appointment, his death is showed forth ; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. Methodism Methodists believe in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine ( or grape juice ) while, like Anglicans and Lutherans, rejecting transubstantiation. According to the United Methodist Church, `` Jesus Christ, who ' is the reflection of God 's glory and the exact imprint of God 's very being ' ( Hebrews 1 : 3 ), is truly present in Holy Communion. '' While upholding the view that scripture is the primary source of Church practice, Methodists also look to church tradition and base their beliefs on the early Church teachings on the Eucharist, that Christ has a real presence in the Lord 's Supper. The Catechism for the use of the people called Methodists thus states that, `` ( in Holy Communion ) Jesus Christ is present with his worshipping people and gives himself to them as their Lord and Saviour ''. See also Consubstantiation Eucharistic miracle Host desecration Impanation Memorialism Mysterium fidei ( encyclical ) New Covenant Nominalism Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist Transignification References Notes Jump up ^ Fay, William ( 2001 ). `` The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist : Basic Questions and Answers ''. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved 13 December 2015. the Catholic Church professes that, in the celebration of the Eucharist, bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Ghost and the instrumentality of the priest. Jump up ^ Hillebrand, Hans J. ( 2005 ). `` Transubstantiation - Oxford Reference ''. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 506493 - 3. Retrieved 2017 - 05 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Article 3 The Sacrament of the Eucharist ''. Catechism of the Catholic Church. Holy See. Jump up ^ Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson, The Eucharistic Liturgies : Their Evolution and Interpretation ( Liturgical Press 2012 ISBN 978 - 0 - 81466240 - 3 ), p. 323. Francis Marsden, `` Pope John Paul II 's new Document on the Eucharist '' ( 2003 ). `` The Catholic Mass expects God to work a transformation, a change of the elements of bread and wine into the very presence of Christ. The Anglican prayers do not demand this objective change in the elements : they ask merely that the bread and wine should now take on new significance for us, as symbols of His Body and Blood. In fact, the Anglican formulae will bear interpretation either way. This is a deliberate policy, and part of the genius of Anglicanism, its ability to accommodate contradictory doctrines under the same outward form of words. '' Jump up ^ `` CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA : Early Symbols of the Eucharist ''. Retrieved 2017 - 05 - 31. ^ Jump up to : `` CHURCH FATHERS : Epistle to the Smyrnaeans ( St. Ignatius ) ''. www.newadvent.org. ^ Jump up to : `` CHURCH FATHERS : On the Mysteries ( St. Ambrose ) ''. www.newadvent.org. Jump up ^ `` CHURCH FATHERS : The Didache ''. www.newadvent.org. Jump up ^ `` CHURCH FATHERS : Epistle to the Romans ( St. Ignatius ) ''. www.newadvent.org. Jump up ^ `` Saint Justin Martyr : First Apology ( Roberts - Donaldson ) ''. www.earlychristianwritings.com. Jump up ^ Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, LXX Jump up ^ Tertullian, Against Marcion, IV, 40 Jump up ^ `` ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries : Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily - Christian Classics Ethereal Library ''. www.ccel.org. Jump up ^ Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat. Myst., 5, 7 ( Patrologia Graeca 33 : 1113 ) : μεταβολή Jump up ^ Gregory of Nyssa, Oratio catechetica magna, 37 ( PG 45 : 93 ) : μεταστοιχειώσας Jump up ^ John Chrysostom, Homily 1 on the betrayal of Judas, 6 ( PG 49 : 380 ) : μεταρρύθμησις Jump up ^ Cyril of Alexandria, On Luke, 22, 19 ( PG 72 : 911 ) : μετίτησις Jump up ^ John Damascene, On the orthodox faith, book 4, chapter 13 ( PG 49 : 380 ) : μεταποίησις Jump up ^ Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, book 4, ch 21, quoting Cyprian. ^ Jump up to : Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ( Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 280290 - 3 ), article Transubstantiation Jump up ^ Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ( Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 280290 - 3 ), article Berengar of Tours Jump up ^ John Cuthbert Hedley, Holy Eucharist ( 1907 ), p. 37. John N. King, Milton and Religious Controversy ( Cambridge University Press 2000 ISBN 978 - 0 - 52177198 - 6 ), p. 134 Jump up ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. ( 1913 ). `` Fourth Lateran Council ( 1215 ) ''. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York : Robert Appleton... of Faith Fourth Lateran Council : 1215, 1. Confession of Faith, retrieved 2010 - 03 - 13. Jump up ^ Luther, M. The Babylonian Captivity of the Christian Church. 1520. Quoted in, McGrath, A. 1998. Historical Theology, An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought. Blackwell Publishers : Oxford. p. 198. Jump up ^ McGrath, op. cit. pp. 198 - 99 Jump up ^ McGrath, op. cit., p197. Jump up ^ `` A Prelude by Martin Luther on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 2 : 26 & 2 : 27 ''. Jump up ^ Weimar Ausgabe 26, 442 ; Luther 's Works 37, 299 - 300. Jump up ^ 1 Corinthians 11 : 23 - 26 Jump up ^ Thirty - Nine Articles, article 28 Jump up ^ `` The Literature of Persecution and Intolerance - FindLaw ''. Findlaw. Jump up ^ Session XIII, chapter IV ; cf. canon II ) ^ Jump up to : J. Waterworth ( ed. ). `` The Council of Trent - The Thirteenth Session ''. Scanned by Hanover College students in 1995 ( 1848 ed. ). London : Dolman. Jump up ^ `` Transubstantiation ''. Encyclopædia Britannica. Jump up ^ Charles Davis : The Theology of Transubstantiation in Sophia, Vol. 3, No. 1 / April 1964 Jump up ^ Adams, Italian Renaissance Art, p. 345f. Jump up ^ `` CT13 ''. history.hanover.edu. Jump up ^ Paul Haffner, The Sacramental Mystery ( Gracewing Publishing 1999 ISBN 978 - 0 - 85244476 - 4 ), p. 92 Jump up ^ This illustration is given in Maisie Ward and F.J. Sheed, Catholic Evidence Training Outlines ( Sheed & Ward, third edition 1935 ), p. 240. Jump up ^ `` The word ' substance ' as here used is not a technical philosophical term, such as might be found in the philosophy of Aristotle. It was used in the early Middle Ages long before the works of Aristotle were current. ' Substance ' in common - sense usage denotes the basic reality of the thing, i.e., what it is in itself. Derived from the Latin root ' sub-stare ', it means what stands under the appearances, which can shift from one moment to the next while leaving the subject intact. Appearances can be deceptive. You might fail to recognize me when I put on a disguise or when I become seriously ill, but I do not cease to be the person that I was ; my substance is unchanged. There is nothing obscure, then, about the meaning of ' substance ' in this context '' ( https://adoremus.org/2005/04/15/Christs-Presence-in-the-Eucharist/ Avery Dulles : Christ 's Presence in the Eucharist : True, Real and Substantial ). ) Jump up ^ Matthew 26 : 26, Mark 14 : 22, Luke 22 : 19, 1 Corinthians 11 : 24 ^ Jump up to : `` V. The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ''. Catechism of the Catholic Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Jump up ^ Dulles, Avery. `` Christ 's Presence in the Eucharist : True, Real and Substantial ''. https://adoremus.org/. External link in website = ( help ) Jump up ^ Kappes, Christiaan. `` The Epiclesis Debate : Mark of Ephesus and John Torquemada, OP, at the Council of Florence 1439 ( University of Notre Dame Press ) at press 2017 ''. Jump up ^ `` Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText ''. www.vatican.va. Jump up ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1356 - 1381, number 1377, Cf. Council of Trent : DS 1641 : `` Nor should it be forgotten that Christ, whole and entire, is contained not only under either species, but also in each particle of either species. Each, says St. Augustine, receives Christ the Lord, and He is entire in each portion. He is not diminished by being given to many, but gives Himself whole and entire to each. '' ( Quoted in Gratian, p. 3, dist. ii. c. 77 ; Ambrosian Mass, Preface for Fifth Sunday after Epiph. ) -- The Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests, issued by order of Pope Pius V, translated into English with Notes by John A. McHugh, O.P., S.T.M., Litt. D., and Charles J. Callan, O.P., S.T.M., Litt. D., ( 1982 ) TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., Rockford, Ill. ISBN 978 - 0 - 89555 - 185 - 6. p. 249 `` Christ Whole and Entire Present in Every Part of Each Species ''. Jump up ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1333 - 1344, numbers 1333 - 1336 under the heading `` III. The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation The signs of bread and wine ''. Jump up ^ `` Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText ''. www.vatican.va. Jump up ^ Boylan, Dom Eugene, This Tremendous Lover, Christian Classics, Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 159 - 170 Jump up ^ The Eucharist and Its Effects -- The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, James H. Dobbins ( if site says `` 404 Error : page not found '', enter the article title in the site 's Search window ). Copyright © 2000 - 2012 by therealpresence.org, Real Presence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Association, 718 Liberty Lane, Lombard, IL 60148, Phone : 815 - 254 - 4420 Jump up ^ Thomas Aqunas, Summa Theologica, III, Question 76 Jump up ^ `` Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds. - Christian Classics Ethereal Library ''. www.ccel.org. Jump up ^ `` The Holy Orthodox Church at the Synod of Jerusalem ( date 1643 A.D. ) used the word metousiosis -- a change of ousia -- to translate the Latin Transubstantiatio '' ( Transubstantiation and the Black Rubric ). Jump up ^ Confession of Dositheus ( emphasis added ) The Greek text is quoted in an online extract from the 1915 book `` Μελέται περί των Θείων Μυστηρίων '' ( Studies on the Divine Mysteries / Sacraments ) by Saint Nektarios. Jump up ^ ( Catherine Roth, St. Theodore the Studite, On the Holy Icons, Crestwood 1981, 30. ) Jump up ^ `` Common Worship ''. www.cofe.anglican.org. Jump up ^ Poulson, Christine ( 1999 ). The Quest for the Grail : Arthurian Legend in British Art, 1840 - 1920. Manchester University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780719055379. By the late 1840s Anglo - Catholic interest in the revival of ritual had given new life to doctrinal debate over the nature of the Eucharist. Initially, ' the Tractarians were concerned only to exalt the importance of the sacrament and did not engage in doctrinal speculation '. Indeed they were generally hostile to the doctrine of transubstantiation. For an orthodox Anglo - Catholic such as Dyce the doctrine of the Real Presence was acceptable, but that of transubstantiation was not. Jump up ^ Spurr, Barry ( 3 April 2010 ). Anglo - Catholic in Religion. Lutterworth Press. p. 100. ISBN 0718830733. The doctrine had been affirmed by Anglican theologians, through the ages, including Lancelot Andrewes, Jeremy Taylor ( who taught the doctrine of the Real Presence at the eucharist, but attacked Roman transubstantiation ), William Laud and John Cosin - all in the seventeenth century - as well as in the nineteenth century Tractarians and their successors. ^ Jump up to : `` Transubstantiation and the Black Rubric ''. anglicanhistory.org. Jump up ^ `` Pro Unione Web Site - Full Text ARCIC Eucharist ''. www.prounione.urbe.it. Jump up ^ `` Pro Unione Web Site - Full Text ARCIC Elucidation Eucharist ''. www.prounione.urbe.it. Jump up ^ `` Council for Christian Unity '' ( PDF ). www.cofe.anglican.org. Jump up ^ Luther, Martin ( 1537 ), Smalcald Articles, Part III, Article VI. Of the Sacrament of the Altar, stating : `` As regards transubstantiation, we care nothing about the sophistical subtlety by which they teach that bread and wine leave or lose their own natural substance, and that there remain only the appearance and color of bread, and not true bread. For it is in perfect agreement with Holy Scriptures that there is, and remains, bread, as Paul himself calls it, 1 Cor. 10 : 16 : The bread which we break. And 1 Cor. 11 : 28 : Let him so eat of that bread. '' ^ Jump up to : Brug, J.F. ( 1998 ), The Real Presence of Christ 's Body and Blood in The Lord 's Supper : : Contemporary Issues Concerning the Sacramental Union, pp2 - 4 ^ Jump up to : Schuetze, A.W. ( 1986 ), Basic Doctrines of the Bible ( Milwaukee : Northwestern Publishing House ), Chapter 12, Article 3 Jump up ^ `` Real Presence : What is really the difference between `` transubstantiation '' and `` consubstantiation '' ? ``. WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Retrieved 25 July 2016. We reject transubstantiation because the Bible teaches that the bread and the wine are still present in the Lord 's Supper ( 1 Corinthians 10 : 16, 1 Corinthians 11 : 27 - 28 ). We do not worship the elements because Jesus commands us to eat and to drink the bread and the wine. He does not command us to worship them. Jump up ^ `` Real Presence : Why not Transubstantiation ? ''. WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Retrieved 25 July 2016. Jump up ^ VII. The Lord 's Supper : Affirmative Theses, Epitome of the Formula of Concord, 1577, stating that : `` We believe, teach, and confess that the body and blood of Christ are received with the bread and wine, not only spiritually by faith, but also orally ; yet not in a Capernaitic, but in a supernatural, heavenly mode, because of the sacramental union '' Jump up ^ `` Real Presence Communion -- Consubstantiation ? ''. WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Retrieved 25 July 2016. Although some Lutherans have used the term ' consbstantiation ' ( sic ) and it might possibly be understood correctly ( e.g., the bread & wine, body & blood coexist with each other in the Lord 's Supper ), most Lutherans reject the term because of the false connotation it contains... either that the body and blood, bread and wine come together to form one substance in the Lord 's Supper or that the body and blood are present in a natural manner like the bread and the wine. Lutherans believe that the bread and the wine are present in a natural manner in the Lord 's Supper and Christ 's true body and blood are present in an illocal, supernatural manner. Jump up ^ McGrath, op. cit., p. 199. Jump up ^ Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q&A 96 Jump up ^ `` This Holy Mystery : Part Two ''. The United Methodist Church GBOD. Archived from the original on July 7, 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2013. Jump up ^ A Catechism for the use of people called Methodists. Peterborough, England : Methodist Publishing House. 2000. p. 26. ISBN 9781858521824. Bibliography Burckhardt Neunheuser, `` Transsubstantiation. '' Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, vol. 10, cols. 311 - 14. Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi : The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture ( 1991 ), pp. 369 -- 419. Otto Semmelroth, Eucharistische Wandlung : Transsubstantation, Transfinalisation, Transsignifikation ( Kevelaer : Butzon & Bercker, 1967 ). Richard J. Utz and Christine Batz, `` Transubstantiation in Medieval and Early Modern Culture and Literature : An Introductory Bibliography of Critical Studies, '' in : Translation, Transformation, and Transubstantiation, ed. Carol Poster and Richard Utz ( Evanston : IL : Northwestern University Press, 1998 ), pp. 223 -- 56. 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Question: when does the bread and wine become the body and blood
Answer: the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass