Blood of Christ

thumb|The Eucharist, which the Catholic Church teaches to be the Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist|real presence of [[Christ, exposed for adoration at Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada]] Transubstantiation (, ) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ". This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, "the o

in Christianity, the blood shed by Jesus on the Cross and/or the sacramental blood present in the Eucharist/Lord’s Supper, sometimes substantially identified with each other, regarded as a redemptive symbol