Is the Body of Christ in this sacrament truly, or figuratively? Do the substance of bread and wine remain in this sacrament after the consecration? Is it annihilated? Is it changed into the body and blood of Christ? Do the accidents remain after the change? Does the substantial form remain there? Is this change instantaneous? Is it more miraculous than any other change? By what words it may be suitably expressed?| www.newadvent.org
Is it fitting for God to become incarnate? Was it necessary for the restoration of the human race? If there had been no sin, would God have become incarnate? Did He become incarnate to take away original sin rather than actual? Was it fitting for God to become incarnate from the beginning of the world? Should His Incarnation have been deferred to the end of the world?| www.newadvent.org
By merit (meritum) in general is understood that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward from him in whose service the work is done| www.newadvent.org
The term church is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which the New Testament writers denote the society founded by Jesus Christ| www.newadvent.org