The Eucharist

Chapter 9Celebration Christ’s saving presence in our

midsthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoADf5rbmbY

A sacrament of INITIATION

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What does The Eucharist Celebrate?

1. Remembering Love Shared, Life Poured Out2. A ritual meal3. Sacrifice4. The Real Presence5. The Challenge: Be the Body of Christ

Remembering Love

• Bread has been sent to us, to nourish us, as daily reminder of God’s Love

A Ritual Meal• Probably a Passover Seder, which celebrates

God saving the Israelites from slavery, it is a meal of thanksgiving.

• It is a transformed meaning from bread and wine to body and blood.

• Eucharist is from a Greek word meaning “thanksgiving”. Christians now gather and thank God for all things we have through Jesus…..

And God’s Banquet

Symbolizes God’s banquet, we are all invited to gather around the table, forgive one another, make peace, encourage one another, sing songs, and share their life with one another!

Sacrifice: Giving Life to Bring Life

• The Eucharist represents a present reality…Jesus gives of himself to us—here and now and brings new life in the process

• We are united with Jesus in our own struggles and “deaths” , large and small.

• Our lives are transformed..we are risen with Jesus.

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The Real Presence

For Catholics the Eucharist is the REAL presence of Jesus, not just the memory

Read story in textJesus is present in the Eucharist 4 ways…..

4 ways1. In the person of the minister, the priest2. In the Scriptures3. In the people4. In the “species” the bread and wine that are

consecrated into the body and blood of Christ.TRANSUBSTANTIATION is the term used in

Catholic theology that means the bread and wine are not just symbols they have BECOME Christ present.

Again…TRANSUBSTANTIATION surpasses human understanding …the bread

and wine are truly changed..they are not just symbols

WOWhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJjW3LXuHzo

But you have to show up too!

Christ’s presence in the Eurachrist is not fully experienced unless a person is “FULLY PRESENT”.

Jim martin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jwR21afCU

Read story in text…Jimmy Place’s funeral MassMoments will transform you

The Challenge of the Eucharist

BECOMING WHAT YOU RECEIVE • A mirror of everyday life….• A welcoming community that offers peace,

reconciliation and sharingThis is difficult to do…p. 186http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWeHo8E70E

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Bread for a Hungry World

• Physical hunger, unjust economic systems• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=play

er_detailpage&v=QPKKQnijnsM• Hunger for hope, freedom, companionship,

sense of community• Earth is hungry to have its health restored.

Rituals of the Eucharist