- It is not simply the Jesus of the past who is present in the Eucharist. It is the risen Christ who is alive now.
- The consecrated bread and wine do not simply signify a special way of remembering/connecting with the risen Lord Jesus Christ (as, for example, the autographed picture of someone we love). The bread and wine are the risen Lord Jesus Christ. The outward appearances obviously remain bread and wine, but the reality has changed so that one ca say, "This is Jesus Christ."
- The change in the bread and wine is real (thus the phrase, "Real Presence"), not because "it is real to me," but because it is real in and of itself. It is not my faith that makes it real. it is God's creative word that transforms bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
- The consecrated bread and wine are the real presence of the risen Lord not only during the Mass. The consecrated bread and wine, for the rest of their existence in the form of bread and wine, continue to be the body and blood of Christ.
- Little White Book, Diocese of Saginaw