What is meant by the accidents that remain?
By the accidents are meant those external realities which are perceived by our senses -- such as quantity, colour, taste, etc.; these alone remain, and they are the same as those which existed in the bread and wine before transubstantiation took place.
Why do these accidents remain?
In order that we might be assured of the sacramental presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Are the body and blood of our Lord, such as they are in themselves, here truly present by virtue of transubstantiation?
Yes, absolutely (LXXV. 1).
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