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3 Why does the Eucharist have so many names? The variety of names helps us to appreciate the immense richness of the Eucharist. It is so rich in meaning that it is also called the Mystery of Faith. In what sense is it a Mystery of faith? The Eucharist is a Mystery in the sense that it is so rich in content and has so many qualities and potential that we cannnot fully understand it. It is a Mystery of Faith in the sense that faith allows us to: recognize with gratitude that in the Eucharist Jesus Christ makes himself really present with his Body and Blood, his Soul and Divinity; receive Holy Communion in a fruitful way; find all the essential and fundamental elements of our Catholic faith in the Eucharist and to profess it in our lives. The Eucharist is a mystery to be believed, to be celebrated and to be lived as the Church, who received it as an incomparable gift from Jesus himself, believes, celebrates and lives it (Cfr. Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis). For this reason when we speak of Mystery, we are not talking about something that does not exist, but we mean something that is so great and rich that our minds are unable to understand or explain it fully. It is something so bright that our eyes are not able to perceive it properly (it is like the brightness of the sun, for example). 36