Eucharist:

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Chapter 6

• Eucharist
• Celebration of Gods Life

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Terms

• ______________
• From the Greek, meaning an act of thanksgiving,
  name for the Christian celebration of the Paschal
  mystery
• Mass
• From the Latin, _________________, common name
  for the Eucharistic liturgy
• _________
• From the Greek, meaning a public work or service
  generally, any act of Christian worship with a
  set structure specifically, the celebration of
  the Eucharistic liturgy
• ________________
• The act of receiving the Body and Blood of
  Christ the actual Body and Blood of Christ after
  consecration
• ________________
• Jesus words of institution of the Eucharist
  recited by the priest changing the bread and wine
  into the Body and Blood of Christ
• ________________
• The Body and Blood of Christ apart from the
  Eucharistic liturgy, reserved in the tabernacle
  for special worship services and for the
  distribution to the sick

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Scripture

• 1 Corinthians 1123-26
• First account of the institution of the Eucharist
• Synoptic Gospels
• Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper
  within the celebration of the _______________
• ___________________________________
• Command to remember Christ through the
  celebration of the Eucharist
• Celebration of the _________________
• Gospel of John
• Extensive discussion of Jesus as _______________
• Important theological text Jn 651-58

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Brief History

• Early Christians celebrated the Eucharist as a
  full meal
• _________ ? _____________________
• Remembrance of Christs life, death, and
  resurrection within the community of believers
• Reception of the Sacraments of Initiation
• At the Easter Vigil with the bishop present
• Separation of Baptism and Confirmation
• Led to various theories as to when people should
  first receive the Eucharist
• Debated throughout the Middle Ages by theologians
• 19th century practice
• Normal sequence
• Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, and Eucharist
• _____________________________________

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Recent Liturgical Reforms

• Pope Pius X (1910)
• Set the normative age for First Communion at 7
• Jesus statement to the Apostles let the little
  children come to me, and do not stop them (Lk
  1816)
• Maintained tradition of Penance preceding First
  Communion
• Vatican II
• Addressed the issue of lack of reception of the
  Eucharist
• __________________________________
• Stressed the communal nature of the celebration
• _________________________________________________
  _________________________________________________
  
• Post Vatican II
• ________________________________
• Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
• Benediction

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Catechism

• ____________________
• Everything we do as followers of God is based on
  receiving Christ in the Eucharist
• Eucharist as supplying us with grace and the end
  to which our actions are directed
• Demonstration of unity (communion)
• Through the Eucharist, we are repeatedly
  __________________________
• Connection to the heavenly liturgy
• _____________________ is a part of the heavenly
  liturgy
• Continuous praising of God Holy, Holy, Holy
• Gives us a glimpse, a taste, as to what awaits
  believers
• ______________________________
• ____________________ of our faith
• Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist,
  and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of
  thinking
• Eucharist ? _______________
• ________________________________________________
• Possible only through Christ
• Through him, with him and in him

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Institution

• Aware of his death, Jesus gathered the Apostles
  to share a meal
• Celebration of the Passover ? __________________
• New meaning of the Passover
• ________________________
• Anticipation of the final Passover of the Church
  in the glory of Heaven
• Eucharist as the ________________________________
• Our opportunity to remember the love of God for
  us
• God so loved the world (Jn 316)
• Described by St. Paul and the Evangelists
• Stories passed down and shared by early Christian
  communities
• Eucharist instituted ____________________
• St. Johns account of Jesus washing the feet of
  the Apostles

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Eucharistic Effects

• Principle effect of receiving the Eucharist
• _________________________________
• Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide
  in me and I in them
• ___________________________
• Christ offering himself for our nourishment (EE
  16)
• Growth in our life in the Spirit
• Just as material food strengthens the body, the
  Eucharist preserves, increases, and
  ________________________________
• _____________________________________
• Cleansing us from past sins and preserving us
  from future sins
• Venial sins are forgiven through the proper
  reception of the Eucharist
• Union and graces given to resist temptation to
  sin
• ___________________________
• As we become closer to Christ, we become closer
  to the rest of the Mystical Body of Christ
  (Church)
• __________________________________________________
  _____

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Pledge of Glory

• _____________________________________
• as we receive from this altar the sacred body
  and blood of your Son, let us be filled with
  every grace and blessing
• Eucharist Prayer I (Roman Cannon)
• Anticipation of heavenly glory
• _________________________
• Viaticum
• ____________________ received by a person
  before death
• The sacrament of passing over from death to life,
  from this world to the Father
• Visible, tangible sign of Christs
  ___________________ in the world and Church

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Sacramental Sacrifice

• Connection to the Old Testament
• _______________________________________
• Offering of Melchizadek
• Do this in remembrance of me.
• We carry out this command by celebrating the
  memorial of Christs sacrifice
• _____________________________
• Eucharist as
• __________________________ to the Father
• Expressing our appreciation for all that God has
  given
• The ______________________ of Christ and his Body
• Makes present the sacrifice on the cross
• The presence of Christ by the power
  __________________________
• Fulfills promise to remain with his people we
  abide in Christ and he in us through the
  reception of his Body and Blood

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Consecration vs. Transubstantiation

• Consecration
• ________________________________________
  ________________________________________
• The actions of the priest in persona Christi
  uniting the prayers of the people and remembering
  the command given at the Last Supper
• Transubstantiation
• ______________________________
• Description of the change of the bread and wine
• Christ as fully present in the Eucharistic
  species
• ___________________
• The _____________ part of the bread and wine
  elements changes bread becomes Jesus' body and
  wine becomes Jesus' blood but the _____________
  parts--sight, taste, smell, touch of bread and
  wine--do not.

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St. Augustine

• What you see is the bread and the chalice that
  is what your own eyes report to you. But what
  your faith obliges you to accept is that the
  bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice the
  Blood of Christ. ... How is the bread His Body?
  And the chalice, or what is in the chalice, how
  is it His Blood? Those elements, brethren, are
  called Sacraments, because in them one thing is
  seen, but another is understood. What is seen is
  the corporeal species, but what is understood is
  the spiritual fruit. ... You, however, are the
  Body of Christ and His members.' If, therefore,
  you are the Body of Christ and His members, your
  mystery is presented at the table of the Lord,
  you receive your mystery. To that which you are,
  you answer Amen' and by answering, you
  subscribe to it. For you hear The Body of
  Christ!' and you answer Amen!' Be a member of
  Christ's Body, so that your Amen' may be the
  truth.
• Sermons 38

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Celebration of the Eucharist

• The Eucharist
• ________________________________________
• Suffering, death, and Resurrection of Christ
• _____________________________________
• Linking the human with the divine
• Mass
• Theme or topic varies according to the feast
• 4 main parts
• _________________
• _________________
• _________________
• _________________

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Justin Martyr

• Apologist, martyred in 165 A.D.
• Described early Christian worship
• Description written to the emperor
• Specifically the celebration of Eucharist
• Key components
• _________________
• Listen to ____________________
• Connection made by presider
• _________________
• _________________
• ___________________
• Thanks given to God
• _________________________
• Eucharist brought to the ill by deacons

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Breaking of Bread in Community

• The Eucharist as _____________________________
• Life of conversion and growth in our relationship
  with God
• _______________________________________
• From a life of sin to a life of grace
• Celebrating in Community
• ________________________
• We are many parts, We are all one body
• ____________________
• Celebrating the Eucharist as a community commits
  us to continue the celebration in our lives
• Go in peace, to love and serve the Lord
• ______________________
• The Eucharist, as ________________, changes us
• Importance of bringing that change to the world
  

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Eucharist and Reconciliation

• The Eucharist thus applies to men and women
  today the reconciliation won once for all by
  Christ for mankind in every age.
• Ecclesia de Eucharistia 12
• Every celebration of the Eucharist involves
  ________________
• _______________________________
• Lord, have mercy
• _______________________________
• forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those
  who trespass against us
• Commits us to forgiving each other
• Reconciling / _______________________
• I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers
  and sisters
• Blessing and Dismissal
• Receiving the Eucharist changes us and forces us
  to go out and change our lives
• ______________________________

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Eucharistic Symbols

• Key Symbols
• ____________________
• Blessed are you Lord of all Creation, through
  your goodness we have this bread/wine to offer
• earth has given and human hands have made
• fruit of the vine and work of human hands
• Offered in the ___________________________________
  ______
• __________
• Unleavened bread from the Exodus
• ________ received in the desert
• Multiplication of the loaves
• _________
• cup of blessing
• ________________________________
• Symbolize the basic resources given to us by God
• We offer them in thanks and praise in the
  Eucharistic (_____________) celebration

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Eucharistic Adoration

• ________________
• Prayer and reflection in the presence of the
  Blessed Sacrament
• Holy Hour
• Traditional practice of personal prayer
• ________________
• Priest blesses people with the Blessed Sacrament
  accompanied by hymns of praise to God
• _________________
• Vessel used for the reservation of the Blessed
  Sacrament
• Placed in a prominent place within the church
• Signified by the Tabernacle Lamp
• Candle signifying the presence of the Blessed
  Sacrament
• _________________
• Vessel used specifically for Eucharistic
  Adoration

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Christian Celebration

• The Mass

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Key Liturgical Documents

• Sacrosanctum Concilium
• ________________________________
• Key document of Vatican II concerning the liturgy
• Liturgy as _________________________________
  ______________
• Missale Romanum
• _________________
• Written during the papacy of Paul VI after
  Vatican II as ____________________________________
  __________
• The sacrifice of the cross and the its
  sacramental renewal in the Mass, which Christ
  instituted are one and the same

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Liturgy

• ___________________
• Admirabile commercium ____________________
• The movement of ________________ in order to
  offer God their prayer of adoration and
  thanksgiving
• The movement of ________________, who look to God
  for answers to their prayers
• Active not passive
• _______________________________
• Key quote from Sacrosanctum Concilium about the
  importance of the all present to take part in the
  celebration

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Liturgy Quotes

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then
  is not an act, but a habit.
• Aristotle
• You are there on the table you are the chalice.
  You are this body with us, for, collectively, we
  are this body. We drink of the same chalice
  because we live the same life.
• St. Augustine
• God hates the worship of the mere lips God
  requires the worship of the heart This is the
  true way of doing devotional service not to have
  feelings without acts, or acts without feelings
  but both to do and feel
• John Henry Newman
• The assembly, remembering Christ in a profound
  act of recollection, discovers its own mystery,
  its identity as the body of Christ in the world,
  continuing his surrender to God and to the work
  of God, until the end of time
• Mark Searle

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Sacrosanctum Concililum

• Key Themes
• The earthly liturgy (the Mass) is a
  ______________ _____________________________ of
  praising God
• Connection to the Communion of Saints
• Mass as the __________ toward which the activity
  of the Church is directed the ________ from
  which all the Churchs power flows
• _____________________________________________
• Christian spiritual life is not limited to the
  Liturgy
• ____________ commits us to do something in the
  world

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Continued

• Key Themes
• The rites of the liturgy should be marked with a
  ______________________
• Understandable to the assembly without too much
  pomp and circumstance
• ______________________________________
  ______________________________________
• Local communities can incorporate culture into
  the liturgy but must not lose connection with the
  Church
• ______________________________
• Liturgy must inspire the involvement of all
  present
• Members of the assembly must actively take part

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Celebration of the Eucharist

• The Eucharist
• The communal celebration of the Paschal Mystery
• Suffering, death, and Resurrection of Christ
• Celebrated with the context of the community
• Linking the human with the divine
• Mass
• 4 main parts
• ________________
• ________________
• ________________
• ________________

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Introductory Rites

• Starting point
• ___________ / _______________ Song
• Ending point
• ____________ / __________
• Purpose
• The _______________________________
  ______________ and prepare themselves to listen
  to Gods word and celebrate the Eucharist properly

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Introductory Contents

• ________________
• Opens the celebration, focuses the attention of
  the community, highlights the season or feast
• ___________
• Sign of the cross expresses the presence of
  Christ in the assembly
• ________________
• Assembly calling to mind its need for forgiveness
  and mercy as it approaches the Eucharistic
  liturgy
• ___________
• Song of praise to God Sundays outside of Advent
  and Lent and on feasts and solemnities
• ____________________
• Assembly calls to mind petitions priest prays
  collect collecting the assemblys prayers and
  expressing the theme of the celebration

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Liturgy of the Word

• Starting Point
• _________________
• Ending Point
• _________________
• Purpose
• God speaks to the assembly through the readings
  from scripture and the homily through the
  chants, the _______________________________ and
  professes faith and offers petitions

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Liturgy of the Word Contents

• ____________________
• Readings are proclaimed
• Word of God as active not passive
• ____________________
• Necessary for the nurturing of Christian life
  should connect the readings or celebration to the
  lives of the people
• ____________________
• Assemblys assent to the Word of God calls to
  mind beliefs in preparation for the celebration
  of the Eucharist
• ____________________
• Assemblys offering of petitions to God
  interceding for all humanity

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Liturgy of the Eucharist

• Starting Point
• ______________________
• Ending Point
• ______________________
• Purpose
• _________________________________
  _________________________________
• _________________________________
  _________________________________

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Preparation of the Gifts

• Preparation of the Gifts
• Bread and wine symbolizing the _______________
  _____________ through the fruit of the earth and
  work of human hands
• _______________________
• The table which is the center of the whole
  eucharistic liturgy
• Collection
• Ancient tradition of the ______________________
  Acts 2
• _____________________
• May the Lord accept the sacrifice

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Eucharistic Prayer

• ________________________________
• Prayer of thanksgiving and sanctification
• Assembly joins itself to Christ
• ________________________________
• Four main Eucharistic Prayers
• 85 Prefaces

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Chief Elements

• ____________________
• Priest praises the Father and gives thanks for
  salvation focusing on a specific aspect according
  to the season / celebration
• ____________________
• Joining with the angles, the assembly signs or
  recites praise of God
• ___________
• Church calls on Gods power and asks that the
  gifts offered by human hands be consecrated
• ______________________________
• The celebration commanded by Christ is carried
  out using his words
• ____________
• Fulfillment of the command Church actively
  remembers the passion, death, resurrection and
  ascension
• ______________________________
• Local community praying for its members and the
  entire Church
• ____________
• The praise of God is expressed to which the
  assembly gives its assent

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Communion Rite

• _______________
• Petition both for daily food and forgiveness of
  sin
• _______________
• Assembly shares a sign of peace importance of
  unity in preparation for receiving the sacrament
  of unity
• _______________
• Recalls Christ breaking bread at the Last Supper
  demonstrates unity that as individuals, we are
  connected through the Eucharist
• Lamb of God Agnus Dei
• _______________________
• Personal preparation before receiving the
  Eucharist
• _______________
• The assembly comes forward to receive the
  Eucharist while singing a Eucharistic hymn or
  song
• __________________
• Priest petitions for the effects of the mystery
  just celebrated

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Concluding Rites

• Starting Point
• ____________
• Ending Point
• _____________
• Purpose
• Blessing and dismissal to _______________ into
  the world to ___________ while praising and
  blessing the Lord

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Concluding Rite Contents

• ___________
• The Lord be with you And also with you
• ___________
• Simple
• May the Lord bless you in the name
• Solemn
• Added petitions by the priest for special
  blessing to be given to the assembly
• Bow your heads and pray for Gods blessing
• Ending with the simple blessing
• ___________
• Assembly sent forth to continue the celebration
  of Gods love
• ____________
• Theme of sending forth and carrying out Christian
  discipleship

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Liturgical Colors

• White
• _______________________________
• Feasts and memorials of the Lord, Mary, angles,
  saints (not martyrs or apostles)
• Red
• Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Pentecost
• _______________________________
• Green
• __________________
• Violet
• _________________________
• Rose
• Gaudete Sunday (3rd Sunday of Advent)
• Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

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Liturgy and Justice

• This holy Mass, this eucharist, is clearly an
  act of faith. This body broken and blood shed
  for human beings encourages us to give our body
  and blood up to suffering and pain, as Christ did
  not for self, but to bring justice and peace to
  our people. Let us be intimately united in faith
  and hope at this moment.
• Archbishop Romero
• There is not one of us, individually, racially,
  socially, who is fully complete in the sense of
  having in himself all the excellence of humanity
  I am not therefore not completely human until I
  have found myself in my African and Asian and
  Indonesian brother because he has the part of
  humanity which I lack.
• Thomas Merton
• The eucharistic table presents itself as the one
  place in our society where at least this much of
  Gods kingdom is anticipated where everyone is
  welcome, where those who are elsewhere unwelcome,
  outcasts, despised, oppressed, shunned, excluded
  are the most welcome of all.
• Robert W. Hovda