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Chapter I. On the Remote Matter

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The matter from which the sacrament of the Eucharist is confected, or the matter around which, as others say, is bread and wine. This doctrine, after the Third Council of Carthage, the Fourth Lateran Council, and Florence, is expressed by the Council of Trent in these words: "It was always firmly believed in the Church, and now this Synod again declares it, that through the consecration of bread and wine a conversion takes place."1 We shall speak about each matter separately.

1 Session 13, chapter 4; cf. canon 2.

The Remote Matter of the Eucharist

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