By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - As Catholics, deriving from God’s revelation chronicled in the narrative of the Creed, we believe that Jesus Christ is present under the appearance of bread and wine after the Consecration at Mass. We call the consecrated species “the Real Presence”—Jesus is truly present, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. Theologians invented the term “transubstantiation” to help explain how the substance of the bread and wine change, but the “accidents”—taste and appearance—remain the same. Jesus is present whether or not we believe.