The Master is here; He is calling you!

Our Lord’s presence in the sacrament is called “real” not to exclude the idea that the others are “real,” too, but rather to indicate presence par excellence, because this presence is substantial and through it, Christ becomes present whole and entire, God and man. Thus, this presence is not merely intentional (i.e., in the mind only) or virtual (i.e., by power). And so it would be wrong for anyone to limit it to symbolism, as if this most sacred sacrament were to consist in nothing more than an efficacious sign “of the spiritual presence of Christ and of his intimate union with the faithful, the members of his Mystical Body…The Lord did not say, “This is a symbol of my body, and this is a symbol of my blood” but rather, “This is my body and my blood.”

Charles Belmonte, Understanding the Mass, pp.13-14