St. Paul the Apostle

This weekend, our Young Adult minister and core team members will be at all masses inviting young people to the ministry, both as leaders and participants. It is no secret anymore that in recent years, there has been an increasing number of young Catholics who have left the Church and become religiously unaffiliated. We want to search for them and bring them back home. We want to break the trend by accompanying our young people who still come to Church by providing them with opportunities to deepen their understanding of the faith and strengthen their love for God. We want to empower and send forth our young people to become fishers of men, inviting others to know and love Christ, proclaiming the truths of our faith to others, and becoming catalysts of change in the world.

In the Eucharist, we receive the Body and Blood of Christ. How does this happen? During the Eucharistic Prayer, Christ, through the priest, takes the bread and the cup of wine, and changes them into his body and blood, just as he did on the night before he died. Although they still look like bread and wine, Jesus changes them into his real body and blood through his divine power. We call this transubstantiation. The appearance remains but the substance is changed. How can we know this? Through Faith. This mystery, along with the mystery of the Divinity of Jesus, the Trinity and the Resurrection, can never be fully comprehended but we know they are true because we believe in the words of Jesus. Hence, the reception of the Eucharist really is an act of faith.

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