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The Blessed Sacrament can also be exposed ( displayed ) on an altar in a Monstrance.

Rites involving the exposure of the Blessed Sacrament include Benediction and Eucharistic adoration.

According to Catholic theology, the host, after the Rite of Consecration, is no longer bread, but the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, who is transubstantiated in it.

Catholics know that Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb of God prefigured in the Old Testament Passover.

Unless the flesh of that passover sacrificial lamb was consumed, the members of the household would not be saved from death.

As the Passover was the Old Covenant, so the Eucharist became the New Covenant.

( Matt 26: 26-28 ), ( Mark 14: 22-24 ), ( Luke 22: 19-20 ), and ( John 6: 48-58 )