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In the Eucharist is present the totus Christus, and why we adore.
First some needed Catechesis around the world from a priest who I believe will be a Saint some day and possibly a Doctor of the church, read his writings when you get a chance, his name, Father John A. Hardon. This will be followed by a real life conversion of a Protestant, because of the Real Presence. But first Father Hardon:
When Pope Paul VI published his now historic Encyclical Mysterium Fidei on the Real Presence, he reminded especially us priests, that there is a crisis of faith regarding the Eucharist and that Catholics had better awaken to the fact. Otherwise they are liable to be swept off their feet by subtle theology and their faith in the Eucharist will be weakened – if not destroyed – by current assaults on this cardinal mystery of Catholic Christianity. Somewhere near the center of the theological controversy about which the Pope warned us is precisely the question that no Catholic should raise, namely, “Is the Holy Eucharist Presence or Reality, or is it, as the Church teaches us, Presence and Reality?” There is more at stake here than meets the eye. My purpose will be to defend the following thesis: that the Holy Eucharist is Jesus Christ, who is in the Blessed Sacrament both as Reality and as Presence. He is in the Eucharist as Reality because the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. He is in the Eucharist as Presence because through the Eucharist He affects us and we are in contact with Him – depending on our faith and devotion to the Savior living really in our midst.