Here it is plainly taught that by consecration the Bread
and Wine have become the Flesh and Blood of Christ, and that as such
they nourish our “blood and flesh” (observe the
inverted order) by undergoing a
change: in other words, the Eucharistic Body and Blood of Christ
are changed into nourishment of our blood and flesh, by being
distributed (as Cyril says) to all our members, that is by being
subjected to the natural processes of digestion and assimilation.
The unusual order of the words “our blood and flesh” is not
accidental, but answers to the process of assimilation, in which the
digested food first nourishes the blood and then the blood nourishes
the flesh.