Pope Pius V on the Lord's Supper
The elements become Christ's body and blood
This conversion, then, is so effected that the whole substance of the bread is changed by the power of God into the whole substance of the body of Christ, and the whole substance of the wine into the whole substance of His blood, and this, without any change in our Lord Himself.
THE POSITION
The whole substance of bread and wine is changed into Christ's body and blood, and the Church "most appropriately" calls this transubstantiation. The catechism keeps the reception distinct from the change: some receive the sacrament only sacramentally, some only in spirit, and those who receive it both ways, having first proved themselves, "derive from the Eucharist those most abundant fruits."
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
3 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Michele Ghislieri, a Dominican friar and inquisitor, was pope from 1566 to 1572 and carried the Council of Trent's decrees into practice. Under his authority came the Roman Catechism (1566), the reformed Breviary (1568) and Missal (1570), and the bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus (1567) on the teaching of Michael Baius; he also named Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church. He wrote little theology of his own, so this entry rests on what he promulgated: the Roman Catechism, read in the McHugh and Callan translation, a commission's work issued by his order, and the 1567 bull in Deferrari's translation of Denzinger.
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"Pope Pius V on the Lord's Supper", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/lords-supper (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/lords-supper).