{"content":[{"text":"and in the Gospel. It is important that we listen to God’s Word speaking in our hearts. \n After listening to God’s Word, we make our Profession of Faith in Him. \n After teaching the people, Jesus notices the crowd is hungry for physical food. \n St. John observes that when it is time to feed the people, the Apostle Andrew brings a \n boy forward who has five loaves of barley bread, the bread of the poor people, and a \n couple of fish, which the boy offers to Jesus. The quantity of food the boy has seems \n insignificant compared to the need of so many people. \n In the same way at Mass, during the Offertory people bring forward bread and \n wine to begin the preparation of the gifts on the altar. These people are like that boy in \n the Gospel and the gifts they present to the priest also seem insignificant in comparison \n with what they will become. \n We now enter into the third part of the Mass, the Liturgy of the Eucharist. In the \n Gospel, Jesus performs Eucharistic actions. The gestures and the words He uses are \n the exact same ones He used in the Institution of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper: \n “He took the bread . . . blessed it . . . broke it . . . and gave it to them.” \n The action of Christ in the Gospel story looks exactly like what happens at the \n Mass. The priest, who is in the person of Christ, takes the bread . . . blesses it, breaks it \n and gives it to the people. During the Consecration, we hear the priest pray that the \n bread and wine “become the Body and Blood of Your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, at \n whose command we celebrate these mysteries.” \n When the priest, in the person of Christ, prays the words of Consecration over \n the bread and wine, by the power of the Holy Spirit acting through Jesus, the substance \n of the bread and wine is changed into the Body and Blood of Christ. This is known as \n transubstantiation. Although we cannot actually see it happening, let’s keep our eyes \n and our hearts open as we witness the Eucharistic miracle that is taking place on the \n altar of our own Church. \n It is Christ Himself, living, glorious, truly and really present, Body and Blood, Soul \n and Divinity. Every single bit of bread and every last drop of wine have been completely \n changed. No trace of bread and wine remains except in mere appearance. Though the \n appearance of bread and wine remains so that we will be able to receive Holy \n Communion, they have both truly become Christ.","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.088864,"width":0.7653319999999999,"height":0.8051550000000001}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.936381,"width":0.009803999999999993,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}