Quite simply, we don't. Like many religious claims, this, too, is a claim that hasn't been proven.
The Eucharist is important to Catholics because Christ is important to Catholics. You see, the Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of the real Presence, which means that Catholics believe that the host is not a mere symbol of the Body of Christ, and the wine of the blood. They are really and truly the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ sacramentally present under the appearance of bread and wine.
The Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ..Catholic AnswerThe thin disk of unleavened bread that is used for the Eucharist is commonly called a host.
Roman Catholic AnswerNothing can make the Holy Eucharist sacred. The Most Holy Eucharist IS already Sacred because It IS the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, Himself. The Most Holy Eucharist makes things that touch It sacred, not the other way around.
Yes, Catholic tabernacles are locked in order to preserve the safety of the Eucharist inside which Catholics believe to be the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
the body and blood of christ.
.Catholic AnswerThe Eucharist IS the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Blessed Savior, Jesus Christ, who is eternal and without age. However, the Eucharist, as such, did not come to exist until the Last Supper when It was established by Our Blessed Lord, so, in that respect, nearly 2,000 years old.
You receive the body and blood of Jesus Christ. As Catholics we believe that there is the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, that it is his body, blood, soul, and divinity.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe central sacrament in Christianity is the most holy Eucharist, the "source and summit of the Christian life" (Vatican Council II). It is the sacrament to which all of the others tend and/or flow from. The Eucharist is the actual Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ.
When you receive the Eucharist, you remember that is is the Body and Blood of Christ, and Christ gave himself up for all of us.
The Most Holy Eucharist is Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, appearing under the appearances of Bread and Wine. It is really and truly 100% Jesus in His Divinity and His Humanity, Body and Blood, fully present in each separately and individually just as much as He was present on the Cross 2,000 years ago to His Blessed Mother, and the soldiers.
Holy Communion (Eucharist) refers to the consecrated bread and wine which become the body and blood of Christ. The Holy Eucharist is the most important of the seven sacraments in that Roman Catholics receive the very body; blood; soul and divinity of Jesus Christ which in turn, bring innumerable and precious graces.
mouth* and its God, its the eucharist and is not a symbol but is the body blood soul and divinity of jesus