Eucharist Flashcards
Leviticus: Blood
- Blood is life itself “life blood”
- necessary to atone for sins (life for a life)
- Cannot eat meat containing blood
Exodus 12: Passover
- 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
Bread from Heaven
- Manna in the wilderness
- Everyday by the Lord the Israelites were fed
Sinai Covenant (Exodus 34 Sealing the Covenant)
- 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
Jeremiah’s New Covenant 31:31-34
- 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
Eucharist in the New Testament
- The Last Supper
- Bread of Life Discourse
- The Letter to the Hebrews
The Last Supper
- 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”
Bread of Life Discourse (JOHN 6)
- 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
The Letter to the Hebrews
- 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
Blessed Sacrament
- The consecrated species of bread from mass
- reserved in the tabernacle in Church
- The Real Presence of Jesus
The Real Presence of Jesus
-Doctrine that Jesus Christ is truly present in his Body and Blood under the form of bread and wine in Eucharist
Transubstantiation
-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
Substance
- What an object is (essence)
- Ex: bell, marker
Accident
- What exists within something or is said of something
- Qualities or characteristics
- Shape, color, texture, function
The Eucharist in the Old Testament
- Leviticus: Blood
- Exodus 12: Passover
- Exodus 16: Bread from Heaven
- Exodus 24: Sinai Covenant
- Jeremiah 31:31-34
Why eating the Eucharist isn’t cannibalism
- 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)