In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine...The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsists. Christ is present whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1377-1378).
Let us look at what St. Ambrose tells us about this conversion...
"Be convinced that this is not what nature has formed, but what the blessing has consecrated. The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed...Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature" (De myst. 9,50 52:PL 16, 405-407; Catechism of the Catholic Church, p. 347).
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