In the name of the Father, my son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and incandle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created.

And you shall be able to face to the earth.

Let us pray.

O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful,

granted by the same spirit they may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation.

Through Christ our Lord, amen.

Yesterday, Dr. Huter spoke about the Eucharistic change, transubstantiation, and therefore how

Christ is really present in the Eucharist.

And this morning, I would like to push our analysis of the sacrament further by considering the ultimate effect or the fruit of this

sacrament. So that's why the title of this conference is, drinking from the side of Christ,

charity and communion in the mystical body, and the obstacle of grave sin.

So we'll get to the question of the Eucharist and forgiveness of sins a little bit later.

That's as it were a follow-on consideration to the principal consideration,

which is what is the ultimate fruit or effect of the Eucharist, especially in the

person who receives the Eucharist? So, if we're to use Aquinas' terminology, which is admittedly

not immediately transparent to us, I mean, but this is true in many respects with Aquinas as you begin to study him more.

At first, you find the terminology be rather opaque, and you have to spend some time with it

because he doesn't always explain it that clearly.

He presupposes that you've been introduced to things like this before.

That's why sometimes a commentator on Aquinas can sometimes be helpful, not as a substitute

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