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
- Unleavened bread (This is my body, given up for you”)
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
1. Offeratory
2. Eucharistic Prayer
3. Communion Rite
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Parts of the Mass
- Introductory Rites
- Liturgy of the Word
- Liturgy of the Eucharist
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Offeratory
-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)
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)
- 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
- "Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord"
| - Strengthened by spiritual food and each other
