Transubstantiation

[Guest lenin]

what is does transubstantiation mean?
are weas catholics still oblige and required to believe in them?

[BLAZEr]

Transubstantiation is the word given to explain what happens to the Bread and Wine at mass.

This goes back to midieval theology. There were two ways to describe an object, by its substance (what it really really is) and by its accidents (what it looks, tastes, feels) like.

For instance, the substance of water is the same whether its accidents caused it to be wet and liquidy, dry and hard and cold, or misty like steam.

In the Mass, the Church teaches us that the bread and the wine that are offered in mass, during the consecration, actually becomes the actual body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. The accidents of the bread and wine remain the same (they still look, taste, and feel like bread and wine), however the substance of the bread and wine has been changed (trans) from bread and wine substance to the substance of Jesus Christ.

This is a teaching of the Church that Catholics in good conscience must believe. If you don't believe in the Real Presence and in transubstantiation, I recommend you talk to a priest.