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The Sacrament of the Eucharist
http://198.62.75.1/www1/CDHN/euch1.html#EUCHARIST
The full teaching of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist, from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, articles 1322-1372.
The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/a.html
A look at the Eucharist in Scripture, Miracles, and Liturgy as affected by Vatican II. It includes a list of related feast days, discusses the meaning of the words "Real Presence" and what the early Church believed about it. It includes material on adoration and internal links to related topics.
The Holy Eucharist
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/euchmenu.htm
A review of the Doctrine, rounded out by scriptural texts and official Church documents. Includes a questions and answers.
The Eucharist: To be Loved, To be Lived
http://www.cfpeople.org/Apologetics/page51a052.html
A pastoral letter by Thomas J. Tobin, Bishop of Youngstown wherein he instructs the faithful that "in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ Himself."
The Blessed Eucharist as a Sacrament
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05584a.htm
The matter, form, effects, necessity, minister and recipient are explained in a Traditional way.
Sacrament of Communion
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct21.html
A Council of Trent pronouncement as to receiving under both species, a true Sacrament is received under either, dispensation, and, little children are not bound to sacramental Communion.
Pastoral Letter on the Eucharist
http://www.rcan.org/archbish/eucharis.htm
Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, NJ asks the question: "How can you live without the Eucharist?" and proceeds to explain that it "is the center of the entire Christian life."
On the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist,
http://history.hanover.edu/early/Trent/CT13CE.html
A rescript of eleven anathemae as given by the Council of Trent, thirteenth session. It removes all doubts as to what is not permitted by addressing critics, skeptics and heresies of that time.
On the Holy Eucharist - Mirae Caritatis
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/L13MIRAE.HTM
A traditional treatment of this Sacrament, on its effects and our actions toward it, being an encyclical promulgated by Pope Leo XIII.
On the Holy Eucharist
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P6MYSTER.HTM
An encyclical letter promulgated by Pope Paul VI (Mysterium Fidei), shedding more light on the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, the re-enactment of the sacrifice of the cross, as celebrated in the Liturgy of the Mass.
Instruction on Eucharistic Worship
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDWEUCH.htm
The Sacred Congregation of Rites explains its centrality in the Liturgy of the Church. It makes more intelligible the signs by which it is celebrated as the memorial of the Lord and worshipped as a permanent Sacrament in the Church.
Holy Eucharist
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4083.htm
The questions and answers from numbers 869-894 of the Baltimore Catechism number 3 give a definition of it as Sacrament and as Sacrifice, and elaborates it as institution and miracle.
Decree on First Communion (Quam Singulari)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDWFIRST.htm
A declaration by the Sacred Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments that expands the Church's view on Holy Communion in the context of "First Communion" of children based on the Bible and sacred Tradition.
Decree Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist
http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent/ct13.html
The full teaching of the Council of Trent on this Sacrament, thirteenth session.