CLE 9

• The Eucharist is a memorial of Christ’s death & resurrection. A sacrament if love, a Paschal Banquet in which Christ is consumed, and a pledge of future glory.
• The Holy Eucharist

  • instituted by Christ at the Last Supper
  • the Christian community, the Church, celebrates with Christ the Holy Eucharist
  • a sacrifice and meal
  • Christ is really present during this celebration
  • the Eschatological pledge — a foretaste of future glory
• Eucharist comes from the greek word ‘Eucharistein’
• Eucharistein means thanksgiving
• During the Mass, we celebrate Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection — His Paschal Mystery.
• Trinitarian Eucharistic Worship — thanksgiving is directed towards God the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit.
• Eucharist


  An act of thanksgiving (eucharistein) to the Father, a memorial (anamnesis) of Christ's Pasch, and an invocation (epiclesis) of the Holy Spirit
• Celebrating the Eucharist


  Makes us grow deeper in understanding the Holy Trinity
• Center of the Eucharist


  Christ and his whole life of total self-giving to the Father
• Celebrating the Eucharist makes us grow deeper in understanding the Holy Trinity
• Christ's sacrifice on the cross that happened on Calvary 2,000 years ago


  Is made present through the celebration of the Holy Mass
• In the Eucharist, the Death and Resurrection of Christ are not just remembered, but effectively proclaimed and made present
• Thru the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, his bloody sacrifice could be continue through all the years after his death.
• His sacrifice being continued is evident in Luke 22:19–20.
• The sacrifice of Christ on the cross that happened on Calvary 2000 years ago is made present thru the celebration of the Holy Mass.
• Eucharist is a sacrifice because Christ is present precisely “offering Himself for us as a sacrifice to the father.”
• In the Eucharist, the Death and Resurrection of Christ are not just remembered, but effectively proclaimed and made present.
• In the Eucharist, Christ is present to us thru the consecrated hosts and wine.
• The consecrated hosts and wine do not symbolize Christ, but it is it’s real presence.
• Christ’s personal presence

  • Is sacramental — he is present thru the signs of bread and wine, seen thru the eyes of faith and faithful.
  • Is personal — he enters into personal communion with each member of the Christian community, the Church.
  • Is in his glorified body. His risen body is sacramentally present in all the tabernacles of the world.
  • is a dynamic and lasting, effective sign of His love for us.
• In the eucharist, the bread and wine undergo a radical change known as transubstantiation.
• In every Mass, we echo the ancient prayer, “Maranatha—Come, Lord Jesus!”