CCC 1390: Since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. For pastoral reasons this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite. But "the sign of communion is more complete when given under both kinds, since in that form the sign of the Eucharistic meal appears more clearly." This is the usual form of receiving communion in the Eastern rites.
- Catechism: Eucharistic communion under two species
- Catechism: Presence of Christ in the Eucharistic species
- Catechism: Daily bread
- Catechism: Bread of life
- Catechism: Unleavened bread
- Catechism: Blessing of bread and wine
- Catechism: Bread, wine, and the Last Supper
- Catechism: Eucharist – The signs of bread and wine
- Catechism: Change of bread into the Body of Christ
- Catechism: Jesus as the living bread
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