Transubstantiation

Em português
                     During His short but intense “public life”, Jesus Christ explained how we should behave to save ourselves, to reach the Kingdom of God, and that only He could be the Way to take for Salvation. Giving His body and blood to the Apostles in the form of bread and wine to eat and to drink, he commanded them to do this in remembrance of Him; which they did, with the power He gave them to expand His mission of love to the whole world, guided by the Holy Spirit.

He has given His life-giving humanity as food to us, and His ever-present Divine teachings will never perish.

This is exactly what the Apostles understood, that the bread and the wine were transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ. The understanding of all that was said to them was reinforced by the Holy Spirit, sent to them after the Ascension of Jesus, as promised by Him.

There was then evil-speaking about what was happening in the closed-door meetings early Christians did, related, among other things, to the misunderstanding of "eating and drinking the body and blood of Christ"; in the end, this is further evidence that the phenomenon of transubstantiation was not something invented later by the Church, as some people say. The disciples already believed this from the beginning.

There were persecutions and many Christians were martyred because of their faith and attitudes as a result of what they believed. Our faith is based on this heroic and superhuman testimony given by early Christians, who strictly followed the teachings of Jesus and transcribed His everlasting Word.