Eucharist Flashcards

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Leviticus: Blood

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  • Blood is life itself “life blood”
  • necessary to atone for sins (life for a life)
  • Cannot eat meat containing blood
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Exodus 12: Passover

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  • Put blood on door post from a pure lamb
  • Saves Israel from death
  • Defining moment for what it means to be a Jew
    1. Roasted lamb
    2. Unleavened bread
    3. Bitter herbs
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Bread from Heaven

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  • Manna in the wilderness

- Everyday by the Lord the Israelites were fed

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Sinai Covenant (Exodus 34 Sealing the Covenant)

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  • Original covenant
  • Chosen People if they keep it
  • Israel must keep God’s law
  • Sealed in blood
  • ox blood in 1/2 bowl, 1/2 on people
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Jeremiah’s New Covenant 31:31-34

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  • The New Covenant
  • Israel broke the old covenant
  • God will make a new covenant
  • The new covenant will be written on their heart (law)
  • Through this covenant, sins will be forgiven
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Eucharist in the New Testament

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  • The Last Supper
  • Bread of Life Discourse
  • The Letter to the Hebrews
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The Last Supper

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  • Holy Thursday (Spring)
  • Passover meal
  • The night before Good Friday (day of Jesus’ crucifixion)
  • Jesus Changes the Passover ritual
      1. Unleavened bread (This is my body, given up for you”)
      1. Wine: “This is my blood, the blood of the new & eternal covenant.. poured out.. forgiveness of sins”
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Bread of Life Discourse (JOHN 6)

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  • After the multiplication of loaves
  • crowd follows them wanting more
  • Crowd: our ancestors ate manna in the desert
  • Jesus: I am the bread from heaven (bread is his flesh)
  • Crowd is freaked out
  • Eat my flesh, drink my blood
  • Uses the greek word for munch, chew
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The Letter to the Hebrews

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  • Jesus:
    • Perfect high priest
    • Doesn’t have to atone for sins (perfect offering)
    • He is the sacrifice and priest
    • Sinless yet knows what humans go through
    • Melchizedek: King of Salem
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Blessed Sacrament

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  • The consecrated species of bread from mass
  • reserved in the tabernacle in Church
  • The Real Presence of Jesus
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The Real Presence of Jesus

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-Doctrine that Jesus Christ is truly present in his Body and Blood under the form of bread and wine in Eucharist

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Transubstantiation

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-A change of the Substance of Bread and Wine into the substance of the Body and Blood of Christ w/o change in the accidents

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Substance

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  • What an object is (essence)

- Ex: bell, marker

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Accident

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  • What exists within something or is said of something
  • Qualities or characteristics
  • Shape, color, texture, function
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The Eucharist in the Old Testament

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  • Leviticus: Blood
  • Exodus 12: Passover
  • Exodus 16: Bread from Heaven
  • Exodus 24: Sinai Covenant
  • Jeremiah 31:31-34
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Why eating the Eucharist isn’t cannibalism

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  • We do not receive the Lord in cannibalistic form
  • Eat his flesh and drink his blood (symbolic meaning)
  • If we were immoral, Jesus would not demand us to eat his flesh and drink his blood (contrary to his holiness)
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Eucharist

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  • the source of Jesus Christ due to it being his “Body and Blood”
  • Given out during mass (Liturgy of the Eucharist)
  • the epitome of Jesus Christ, and is the highest part of him.
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Penitential Rite

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-Part of the introductory rite at Mass when the priest invites people to repent of their sins and prepare themselves to encounter Christ in the Eucharist

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Epiclesis

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  • The prayer that petitions God to send the Holy Spirit to transform the bread and wine offered at the Eucharistic liturgy into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ
  • also applies to the prayer said in every sacrament that asks for the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit
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Responsorial Psalm

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-A psalm sung or said at Mass after the first Scripture reading

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Eucharistic Prayer

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  • The Church’s great prayer of praise and thanksgiving to God that takes place during the Liturgy of the Eucharist
  • 4 main Eucharistic Prayers in the Roman rite
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Doxology

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  • A prayer of praise to the Blessed Trinity

- The Eucharistic Prayer ends in this

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Great Amen

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-The affirmation by the faithful to the entire Eucharistic Prayer

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Fraction Rite

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  • The time during the Communion Rite when the priest breaks the Body of Christ
  • He puts a piece into the chalice containing the Blood of Christ to signify the unity of the Body and Blood of Christ
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Words of Institution

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  • The words said by Jesus Christ over the bread and wine at the Last Supper
  • The priest repeats these words over the bread and wine at aMass as they are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ
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The Road to Emmaus

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  • 2 Lesser disciples (mean’t to represent all followers of Jesus
  • They do not recognize him at first
  • They are ignorant of what the scriptures mean
  • Jesus opened the Scriptures to them
  • He’s invited to stay and eat
  • Breaks Bread
  • He is recognized and vanished
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Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of the Eucharist in The Road to Emmaus

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Word: “Were not our hearts burning within us”
Eucharist: He is breaking the bread, and is the bread

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The Eucharist as a sacrifice

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  • Each mass is the the presence in our midst of the one eternal sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross more than 1000 years ago
  • Transcends time and space (2nd coming and the past)
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Unity with Christ

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  • Grace of the Eucharist
  • Christ becomes part of us
  • We become part of him
  • To receive communion is to receive Christ
  • We become more his body
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Separation from Sin

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  • Grace of the Eucharist

- The more we share the life of Christ, the more difficult it is to break away from him by mortal sin

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Becoming the Church

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  • Every Eucharist helps us form & build the Church
    1. Participate in the local parish
    2. We can contribute to mission activity
    3. We can animate our daily activity w/ Christian spirit
    4. We can engage in evangelization
    5. We can build a community with the parish
    6. We can help strengthen the unity of all Christians through prayer
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To be Eucharist to Others

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  • Graces of the Eucharist
  • Commits us to the poor
  • Receive the truth in the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us
  • We must recognize Christ in the poorest, his brethren
    • Orphans
    • Widows
    • Foreigners
    • The poor
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Introductory Rites

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  • Priest and ministers process to the altar
  • The penitential rite happens where we ask for forgiveness for our sins
  • The Glory to God is sung
  • Priest says an opening collect or prayer
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Liturgy of the Word

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  1. first reading: old testament acts of the apostles, revelation
  2. Responsorial psalm is said or sung
  3. Second reading from new testament letters
  4. Alleluia is sung *means praise the Lord
  5. Gospel reading from mark, luke, or john
  6. Homily: Priest explains and applies the reading to today
  7. Nicene Creed: statement of what we believe
  8. The general intercessions (prayer of the faithful)
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Liturgy of the Eucharist

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  1. Offeratory
  2. Eucharistic Prayer
  3. Communion Rite
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Parts of the Mass

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  • Introductory Rites
  • Liturgy of the Word
  • Liturgy of the Eucharist
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Offeratory

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-money is collected for the parish and the gifts of bread and wine are prepared on the altar

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Eucharistic Prayer (What Occurs)

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Heart of the mass

 - Preface: thanksgiving to the father
 - Sanctus: Holy, Holy, Holy
 - Epiclesis: The calling down of the Holy Spirit upon the gifts
 - Words of Institution: The words spoken by Christ at the last supper
 - Amanesis: Mystery of faith
 - Intercessions: catholics in need, pope bishop clergy, all those gathered for the eucharist, the faithful deceased
 - doxology
 - The Great Amen
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Communion Rite (What occurs)

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  • The Lords Prayer (Our Father)
  • Kiss of peace/ sign of peace
  • Fraction rite: Priest breaks the bread and puts it in the wine
  • “Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us”
  • Reception of Communion (Hand or tongue)
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Dismissal

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  • “Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord”

- Strengthened by spiritual food and each other