Eucharist
Certificate of Religious Education (NSW)
UNIT 5: SACRAMENTS
PART B
THE EUCHARIST
EVEN YEARS ASSIGNMENT
1). Explain what is meant by the term "Eucharist"
The Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper. In brief it is "the sum and summary of our faith" (CCC 1323). Contained within the blessed Eucharist is the whole good of the Church and namely Christ himself, our Pash (CCC). The word Eucharist is derived from a word that means "thanksgiving". So when we celebrate the Eucharist, we are thanking and praising God for all of the good he has done for us through creation, redemption, and sanctification (CCC 1360). We do this in the ...
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(CCC 1358). At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. Jesus said to the apostles, "Take and eat. This is my body, which will be broken and given for you" (CCC 1339). With every Eucharistic celebration we not only receive the body of Christ, under the forms of bread and wine we are also reunited with Christ, cleansed of past sins and preserved from future sins (CCC 1393). We are therefore challenged to be the Body of Christ in our everyday life. "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" (Jn 6:56). In other words it is not enough to simply say `Amen' it is also necessary to become in some way `the body given' and `the blood' poured', to forget this is to forget that we proclaim the Lord's death until he comes (Beguerie & Duchesneau, 1989:82). "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (I Cor. 11.26). The scriptural ...
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over where the river flows and we can take this control from the point in the river, which provides the greatest success or intensity, the point that provides the spiritual nourishment we need to live. Christian spirituality, then, is a two-way street. It leads us from the Eucharist as our starting point out into the world of daily life and it takes us back home to the Eucharist after each journey so we can unite as one.
The Eucharist, as defined by the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), completes Christian initiation. The Eucharist unifies all people throughout the Christian community. As we look deeper into the meaning of the Eucharist, we discover the Eucharist is Christ ...
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