Eucharist

Question 1

A sacrament and a sacrifice in which Our Savior Jesus Christ, body and blood, soul and divinity, is contained, offered, and received under the appearances of bread and wine. Christ instituted the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, the night before He died. The Apostles were present (Morrow, 1964).

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Holy Eucharist

Question 2

is the “source and summit of the Christian Life”.

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Eucharist

Question 3

is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

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Eucharist

Question 4

is the sum and summary of our faith: “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.”

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Eucharist

Question 5

means thanksgiving

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eucharistein, eulogein

Question 6

was instituted by Christ, He prepared for it in the many fellowship meals which he started during his public life. He established the Eucharist at the Last Supper, the night before he died on the cross. And he confirmed it as the Risen Christ in his Easter meal appearances to his disciples.

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Eucharist

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is the eschatological pledge and foretaste of our future glory

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Eucharist

Question 8

it is connected with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion, and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.

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Last Supper

Question 9

Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meal, when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread, above all at the Last Supper. It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection, and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic Assemblies; by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him.

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Breaking of Bread

Question 10

it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church’s offering. The terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, sacrifice of praise, pure and holy sacrifice, are also used, since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant.

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Holy sacrifice

Question 11

the Church’s whole liturgy finds its center and most intense expression in the celebration of this sacrament; in the same sense we also call its celebration the Sacred Mysteries. We speak of the Most Blessed Sacrament because it is the Sacrament of sacraments. The Eucharistic species reserved in the tabernacle are designated by this same name.

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Holy and Divine Liturgy

Question 12

by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ who makes us sharers in his body and blood to form a single body,

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Holy Communion

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the liturgy, in which the mystery of salvation is accomplished, concludes with the sending forth (missio) of the faithful, so that they may fulfill God’s will in their daily lives.

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Holy Mass

Question 14

there are three dimensions of the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist, namely

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1. Sacrifice-Sacrament
2. Communion-Sacrament
3. Presence-Sacrament

Question 15

Through the Eucharist, Christ’s sacrifice of the Cross on Calvary is made present and its saving power exerted for the forgiveness of sins. The Mass and the Sacrifice of the Cross are one and the same sacrifice. Christ as Priest and Victim, dying for the salvation of all, is the same in the Mass as on the Cross.

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Sacrifice-Sacrament.

Question 16

Christ instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper so that all who shared in his Body and Blood might become one body with him. The Eucharist, then, becomes a meal of “communion” – a sign of unity and bond of charity. (CFC, 1747)

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Communion-Sacrament.

Question 17

the faithful receives “the bread of heaven” and the “cup of salvation” the body and blood of Christ who offered himself “for the life of the world”

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Communion

Question 18

the Church dictates that the Eucharist is celebrated in communion with the whole church in heaven and on earth, the living and the dead, and in communion with the pastors of the Church, the Pope and all the bishops of the whole world together with their Churches.

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Intercessions

Question 19

the Church asks the Father to send his Holy Spirit (or the power of his blessing) on the bread and wine.

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Epiclesis

Question 20

the power of the words and the action of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit, make sacramentally present under the species of the bread and wine Christ’s body and blood, his sacrifice offered on the cross once for all.

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Institution Narrative

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the Church calls to mind the Passion, resurrection and glorious return of Christ Jesus

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Anamnesis

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with the Eucharistic Prayer – the prayer of thanksgiving and consecration – we come to the heart and summit of the celebration:

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Anaphora

Question 23

the Church gives thanks to the Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit, for all his works: creation, redemption and sanctification

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Preface