Catechesis: Person of Christ

Because of the this personal union and the communion that results from it, which the divine and human natures in Christ have with each other in fact and in truth, things are attributed to Christ according to the flesh that the flesh, according to its nature and essence, cannot outside of this union intrinsically be or have—for example, that his flesh is a true, life-giving food and his blood a true, life-giving drink, as the two hundred patres at the Council of Ephesus testified, “carnem Christi esse vivicam seu vivicatricem” (that is, that the flesh of Christ is a life-bestowing flesh).—FC SD VIII:76