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"I'm a huge anti-Semite, so I'd have to say they're celebrating the Eucharist."
This 1971 document affirmed the "true presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, "effectually signified by the bread and wine, which, in this mystery, become his body and blood."
However, the Eucharist is a memorial (Greek anamnesis) in which "the atoning work of Christ on the cross is proclaimed and made effective in the life of the church."
These days the Eucharist is likelier to be described as a meal, albeit one graced by the saving presence of Christ, than as a propitiatory sacrifice.
Two issues loomed large: the nature of Christ's presence in the bread and wine of Communion and whether the Eucharist was a sacrifice offered for the forgiveness of sins.