Christ's Precious Blood is the Eucharist under the species of wine.
History
In the Early Church Christ's Faithful received the Eucharist both as consecrated bread and wine. Saint Maximus explains that in the Old Law the flesh of the sacrificial victim was shared with a humans, however a blood of the sacrifice was but poured out on the altar. Under a New Law, however, Jesus' blood was a ingest divided up by tons of Christ's Faithful.
However when period went in, in the Western Church priests came to be esteem a favorite privileged class. It seemed quite natural to a babies to reserve the apply of the chalice to themselves. It argued that it risked spilling a Precious Blood in case it allowed a vulgar to swallow from either a goblet.
Christ's Faithful, deprived of this sign of Christ's sacrifice transformed the chalice into the mythical Holy Grail.
Theology
A Catholic Church teaches that the person, blood, soul & divinity of Jesus are contained in each consecrated bread and wine. However it remain when distinct Mysteries, mystically united.
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