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The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation

#410: The Most Clear Explanation of the Eucharist

The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation

Patrick Coffin

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary


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🔹 Video Summary:
In this essential teaching video, Patrick Coffin delivers the clearest and most compelling explanation of the Eucharist—what the Catholic Church rightly calls the “source and summit of the Christian life.” Drawing from Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the lived experience of the Church, Patrick lays out why the Eucharist is not a mere symbol, but the Real Presence: the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.

🕊️ What You’ll Learn:
📖 Biblical Foundations of the Eucharist:
Luke 22 & Matthew 26: Jesus’ words at the Last Supper—“This is My Body…This is My Blood”—aren’t metaphorical; they are sacramental and literal.

John 6: Bread of Life Discourse: Jesus insists multiple times on the need to “eat My flesh and drink My blood”—so clearly literal that many of His disciples walked away.

1 Corinthians 10–11: St. Paul warns the early Church that unworthy reception of the Eucharist is a sin “against the Body and Blood of the Lord.”

🕎 Old Testament Fulfillments:
The Passover lamb: Jesus is the Lamb of God whose sacrifice must be eaten, not just remembered.

Manna in the desert: Foreshadows the true Bread from Heaven, which is Christ Himself.

Melchizedek’s offering of bread and wine: A prefigurement of the Eucharistic sacrifice.

🔄 Refuting Protestant Misunderstandings:
Protestant objections—such as the Eucharist being “just a symbol”—are rooted in a modern and reductive reading of Scripture.

Patrick unpacks how sola scriptura leads to confusion and how early Church Fathers like St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Justin Martyr, and St. Cyril of Jerusalem believed in the Real Presence.

He also reveals how Lutheran and Calvinist compromises still miss the heart of Christ’s eucharistic love.

💬 Quotes to Remember:
“The Eucharist is not a snack. It’s a Sacrifice.”
“If Jesus meant to say ‘symbol,’ He chose the most confusing way to say it.”

🙏 Why This Doctrine Matters:
The Eucharist is Jesus’ self-donation, making present His once-for-all sacrifice on the Cross.

It is the most intimate communion we can have with God this side of Heaven.

Understanding and revering the Eucharist leads to a life of discipleship, humility, and mission.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to my YouTube channel. My name's Patrick Coffin. Check out my podcast that drops every Thursday.

0:05.5

And if you love talking about things of this world and the next, faith, theology, literature, good movies, a little bit of politics, evangelization.

0:14.8

Check out the True North movement in the link in the bio. I think you'll love it. People in over 20 countries.

0:20.1

Getting together, helping each other, protecting each other's legacy. And the more we start with the person in the

0:26.3

mirror, that makes for better people, better marriages, better families, better communities. So

0:30.6

true north. Love to have you. All right, let's talk about the Catholic. Oh, also click, subscribe and hit the notification

0:38.6

bell and the more things you do that. On that side, the more connected we are and the bigger

0:44.4

the pie gets and the more people are invited into the conversation. And then the content

0:48.0

comes to you. So the Catholic distinctive I want to talk about today is the real presence

0:53.8

of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

0:56.7

Now, even describing it that way, Catholics sometimes fall into this kind of apologetics

1:02.4

pit, if you will, is that it's not that Jesus is in the Eucharist. Like, I'm in the Eucharist,

1:09.1

help, get me out of here. It's not that he's in it. It's that the Eucharist, like, oh, I'm in the Eucharist, help, get me out of here.

1:12.2

It's not that he's in it.

1:16.3

It's that the Eucharist becomes him.

1:17.5

Now, why do we say this?

1:26.7

Well, in certain passages of the Word of God, Jesus speaks literally, and sometimes he speaks symbolically.

1:28.3

An example of him speaking symbolically is, I am the true vine.

1:33.4

He doesn't literally mean that he is a tree trunk or a branch or something that was planted

1:40.7

and that gives wine eventually.

1:44.4

When he says he's the gate, he doesn't literally mean that he's made of metal and wood and

1:48.6

there's a latch.

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