2 PRESENCE OF CHRIST IN THE HOLY MASS 18 What are the principal ways in which Christ is present in the celebration of the Holy Mass? Christ makes himself present in the Holy Mass also: In his Word (Sacred Scripture), which is read and explained during the Liturgy of the Word; In the same assembly of the faithful who is gathered in his name “where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt 18, 20); In the person of the celebrant. Christ is especially and really present in the consecrated Eucharistic species 90