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Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.207 Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.207, 1378 Worship of the Eucharist. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch. . Through Christ the Church can offer the sacrifice of praise in thanksgiving for all that God has made good, beautiful, and just in creation and in humanity. And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. 1372 St. Augustine admirably summed up this doctrine that moves us to an ever more complete participation in our Redeemer's sacrifice which we celebrate in the Eucharist: The presence of Christ by the power of his word and the Holy Spirit, 1373 "Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us," is present in many ways to his Church:197 in his word, in his Church's prayer, "where two or three are gathered in my name,"199 in the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned,199 in the sacraments of which he is the author, in the sacrifice of the Mass, and in the person of the minister. . 144 Cf. . In the catacombs the Church is often represented as a woman in prayer, arms outstretched in the praying position. He says elsewhere, "The altar represents the body [of Christ] and the Body of Christ is on the altar. 1388 It is in keeping with the very meaning of the Eucharist that the faithful, if they have the required dispositions,221 receive communion when they participate in the Mass.222 As the Second Vatican Council says: "That more perfect form of participation in the Mass whereby the faithful, after the priest's communion, receive the Lord's Body from the same sacrifice, is warmly recommended."223. . 1368 The Eucharist is also the sacrifice of the Church. Paul VI, MF 18. 156 Cf. Then someone brings bread and a cup of water and wine mixed together to him who presides over the brethren. 161 Jn 6:67. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. Ps 104:13-15. Jn 6. In the Eucharist the Church is as it were at the foot of the cross with Mary, united with the offering and intercession of Christ. The "cup of blessing"157 at the end of the Jewish Passover meal adds to the festive joy of wine an eschatological dimension: the messianic expectation of the rebuilding of Jerusalem. But "the sign of communion is more complete when given under both kinds, since in that form the sign of the Eucharistic meal appears more clearly. Do this in remembrance of me." 1369 The whole Church is united with the offering and intercession of Christ. This week at Camp Catholic we are turning our attention to the Holy Eucharist. The Holy and Divine Liturgy, because 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. ', When he who presides has given thanks and the people have responded, those whom we call deacons give to those present the "eucharisted" bread, wine and water and take them to those who are absent.171. In the Eucharistic sacrifice the whole of creation loved by God is presented to the Father through the death and the Resurrection of Christ. "243 Whenever the Church celebrates the Eucharist she remembers this promise and turns her gaze "to him who is to come." And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. this sacrifice is truly propitiatory. Because this bread and wine have been made Eucharist ("eucharisted," according to an ancient expression), "we call this food Eucharist, and no one may take part in it unless he believes that what we teach is true, has received baptism for the forgiveness of sins and new birth, and lives in keeping with what Christ taught. The Eucharist is properly the sacrament of those who are in full communion with the Church. 4,6,28:PL 16,446; cf. Question 292 in the Compendium of the Catechism describes these fruits… Holy Communion increases our union with Christ and with his Church. Mt 25:31-46. It preserves and renews the life of grace received at Baptism and Confirmation and makes us grow in love for our neighbor. "225 This is the usual form of receiving communion in the Eastern rites. Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? 162 Jn 6:68. 1386 Before so great a sacrament, the faithful can only echo humbly and with ardent faith the words of the Centurion: "Domine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum, sed tantum dic verbo, et sanabitur anima mea" ("Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul will be healed. So, for example, an apple (a substance) has many accidents. Advent Apologetics: How Can Christians Reclaim Their Seasons and Feasts From Secularists? It has a skin of a particular color, a certain weight, shape, taste, and so on. 1374 The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. Advent Apologetics: How Can I Learn to Pray Better? 233 Cf. 171 St. Justin, Apol. "138, 1326 Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.139 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST. . 226 Jn 6:56. 1 Thess 2:13. When the prayers are concluded we exchange the kiss. offer Christ sacrificed for the sins of all, and so render favorable, for them and for us, the God who loves man.195 238 UR 15 § 2; cf. When Jesus instituted the Eucharist, he gave a new and definitive meaning to the blessing of the bread and the cup. By offering to God our supplications for those who have fallen asleep, if they have sinned, we . 169 Acts 20:7. 1371 The Eucharistic sacrifice is also offered for the faithful departed who "have died in Christ but are not yet wholly purified,"193 so that they may be able to enter into the light and peace of Christ: But "he is present . Eucharist means first of all "thanksgiving." in 1 Cor. V. THE SACRAMENTAL SACRIFICE THANKSGIVING, MEMORIAL, PRESENCE Lk 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24. 235 St. Augustine, Sermo 272:PL 38,1247. In the intercessions, the Church indicates 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, the diocesan bishop, his presbyterium and his deacons, and all the bishops of the whole world together with their Churches. This being the case, the Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is worthy of the same respect and adoration due God. "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. is eternal: he is outside of time, he has no beginning and no end. 1391 Holy Communion augments our union with Christ. . 176 1 Tim 2:1-2. that shall be believed; What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do; Truth himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.213. According to the Catholic Church, the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324). 165 Cf. 1383 The altar, around which the Church is gathered in the celebration of the Eucharist, represents the two aspects of the same mystery: the altar of the sacrifice and the table of the Lord. "206, 1377 The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. 177 St. Irenaeus, Adv. Walking with them he explained the Scriptures to them; sitting with them at table "he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. . As faith in the real presence of Christ in his Eucharist deepened, the Church became conscious of the meaning of silent adoration of the Lord present under the Eucharistic species. most especially in the Eucharistic species. 1369 The whole Church is united with the offering and intercession of Christ. 1339 Jesus chose the time of Passover to fulfill what he had announced at Capernaum: giving his disciples his Body and his Blood: 844 § 4. It makes manifest the fulfillment of the wedding feast in the Father's kingdom, where the faithful will drink the new wine that has become the Blood of Christ.159. When the prayers are concluded we exchange the kiss. As the centuries rolled on, he sent prophets to 224 But the Church strongly encourages the faithful to receive the holy Eucharist on Sundays and feast days, or more often still, even daily. Of the Church of Jerusalem it is written: If we proclaim the Lord's death, we proclaim the forgiveness of sins. The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist in Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus. I simply ask you to remember me at the Lord's altar wherever you are.194 1332 Holy Mass (Missa), because 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. The whole community thus joins in the unending praise that the Church in heaven, the angels and all the saints, sing to the thrice-holy God. 247 EP III 116: prayer for the dead. …, The first-century Jewish historian Josephus mentions Jesus twice in his monumental history of the Je The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.149 "These Churches, although separated from us, yet possess true sacraments, above all - by apostolic succession - the priesthood and the Eucharist, whereby they are still joined to us in closest intimacy." The sacrificial memorial of Christ and of his Body, the Church. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on the night when he was betrayed," [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.189 It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend." Missae sacrificio, c. 2: DS 1743; cf. Knowing that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of love.163 In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and Resurrection, and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return; "thereby he constituted them priests of the New Testament. In all the Eucharistic Prayers we find after the words of institution a prayer called the anamnesis or memorial. 147 Cf. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the passover meal for us, that we may eat it. Pick up your copies of 20 Answers: The Eucharist today. What does the Catholic Church teach about the Eucharist? 1403 At the Last Supper the Lord himself directed his disciples' attention toward the fulfillment of the Passover in the kingdom of God: "I tell you I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 201 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,73,3c. Mt 8:8. If, as often as his blood is poured out, it is poured for the forgiveness of sins, I should always receive it, so that it may always forgive my sins. THE EUCHARIST - SOURCE AND SUMMIT OF ECCLESIAL LIFE, 1324 The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life. If you are the body and members of Christ, then it is your sacrament that is placed on the table of the Lord; it is your sacrament that you receive. In the institution narrative, the power of the words and the action of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit, make sacramentally present under the species of bread and wine Christ's body and blood, his sacrifice offered on the cross once for all. Thus St. John Chrysostom declares: When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, she commemorates Christ's Passover, and it is made present the sacrifice Christ offered once for all on the cross remains ever present.185 "As often as the sacrifice of the Cross by which 'Christ our Pasch has been sacrificed' is celebrated on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out. . This sacrifice of praise is possible only through Christ: he unites the faithful to his person, to his praise, and to his intercession, so that the sacrifice of praise to the Father is offered through Christ and with him, to be accepted in him. It is for this reason that the tabernacle should be located in an especially worthy place in the church and should be constructed in such a way that it emphasizes and manifests the truth of the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. In all the Eucharistic Prayers we find after the words of institution a prayer called the anamnesis or memorial. St. Justin wrote to the pagan emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161) around the year 155, explaining what Christians did: Jn 13:1-17; 34-35. 189 Council of Trent (1562): DS 1740; cf. The Church sees in the gesture of the king-priest Melchizedek, who "brought out bread and wine," a prefiguring of her own offering.155. '), St. Cyril says: 'Do not doubt whether this is true, but rather receive the words of the Savior in faith, for since he is the truth, he cannot lie. The Catechism of the Catholic Church does, it is true, give us a general theological norm about divorce in general, noting rightly that “Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law…. 1351 From the very beginning Christians have brought, along with the bread and wine for the Eucharist, gifts to share with those in need. Christ is thus really and mysteriously made present. Thus the Roman Church prays in its anaphora: "Take this and eat it, all of you": communion, 1384 The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: "Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."217. "174 230 St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 1377 The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. The catechism continues in paragraph 1367: View Online Version . …, Scripture gives us many passages that call us to reflect on the role of the supernatural in our live 26,13:PL 35,1613; cf. Since Christ died for us out of love, when we celebrate the memorial of his death at the moment of sacrifice we ask that love may be granted to us by the coming of the Holy Spirit. But "he is present . Advent Apologetics: Did the First Christians Expect Jesus to Return in Their Lifetimes? And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Lk 22:18; Mk 14:25. 1329 The Lord's Supper, because of its connection 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.143, The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meal when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,144 above all at the Last Supper.145 It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection,146 and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies;147 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.148, The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.149. Each name evokes certain aspects of it. Walking with them he explained the Scriptures to them; sitting with them at table "he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them."174. We celebrate Mass and our faith at church, but we live it all day, every day, at work and at home. ." Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ, a flesh "given life and giving life through the Holy Spirit,"229 preserves, increases, and renews the life of grace received at Baptism. 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. profess that it signifies life in communion with Christ and await his coming in glory. The memoirs of the apostles and the writings of the prophets are read, as much as time permits. Advent Apologetics: What Does Scripture Teach us About Private Revelation? . - the gathering, the liturgy of the Word, with readings, homily and general intercessions; The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? The anointing of the sick physically and spiritually heals us so we can receive the Eucharist anew, and sometimes it even provides us the last Eucharist we will receive before we depart this life (what is called viaticum, which literally means “with you, on the way”). Such is the sacrifice of Christians: "we who are many are one Body in Christ" The Church continues to reproduce this sacrifice in the sacrament of the altar so well-known to believers wherein it is evident to them that in what she offers she herself is offered. And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. Eucharist means first of all "thanksgiving.". The whole community thus joins in the unending praise that the Church in heaven, the angels and all the saints, sing to the thrice-holy God. 231 Cf. And it is the same Christ, really present under the species of bread and wine, who is the offering of the Eucharistic sacrifice. These accidents could change and the apple would remain an apple (that is, the apple could come in a different color or size). The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed. 182 St. Justin, Apol. ":161 the Lord's question echoes through the ages, as a loving invitation to discover that only he has "the words of eternal life"162 and that to receive in faith the gift of his Eucharist is to receive the Lord himself. The Eucharist is not ordered to the forgiveness of mortal sins - that is proper to the sacrament of Reconciliation. 10:6: SCh 248,176-178 wine—what we perceive with our senses, but you have tasted the blood of the common. 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