The Perpetual Sacrifice The real crisis of faith in Catholic ranks today is the crisis of disbelief in the Holy Eucharist. The most dramatic reason for this is the same as what happened when Christ first announced that He would give us His Body and Blood to eat and drink as described by St. John. You recall that many people who had until then been devoted to Christ began first to wonder, then to murmur, and finally doubting, left His Company. This has always been so since this mystery of faith was first announced to the world (John 6:60-69). The most fundamental question to ask about the Blessed Sacrament is, "Who is the Holy Eucharist?" And the correct answer is: The Holy Eucharist is Jesus Christ. Jesus is in the Blessed Sacrament "whole and entire: the Soul, the Body and Blood of Christ, with all their component parts. In heaven a complete human nature is united to the divine nature in one. . . person. It is a denial of the faith to suppose that in this sacrament there is anything less." Christ instituted the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper while the Apostles were present, the night before He died. Christ could not have used clearer, more explicit words than: “Take, eat; this is My body”, and “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Math. 26) Is there any real difference between Jesus in heaven and Jesus in the Eucharist? No, it is the same Jesus. The only difference is in us. We now on earth cannot see or touch him with our senses. But that is not a limitation in him; it is a limitation in us. • JESUS is really now on earth in the Eucharist • Jesus IS really now on earth in the Eucharist • Jesus is REALLY now on earth in the Eucharist • Jesus is really NOW on earth in the Eucharist • Jesus is really now ON earth in the Eucharist • Jesus is really now on EARTH in the Eucharist • Jesus is really now on earth IN THE EUCHARIST The foregoing six statements, repeated and separately emphasized, explain why the Catholic Church has defended the reality of the Real Presence so strenuously down the centuries. God is love. From all eternity, God is love. The Sacred Heart symbolizes the love that is God. This is way we say that the Sacred Heart is the Holy Eucharist. God is one. Each of the three Divine Persons forms this oneness. This is why we are supposed to be one in Christ, one in the Body of Christ - the Church as well as the Holy Eucharist -, one in the Spirit, one according the Will of the The Father; in other words: one in the Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.