The Mass
This part of the Mass is when bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ.
What is the Consecration?
A spiritual bouquet is a gift made of these instead of real flowers.
What are prayers and sacrifices?
This short prayer, said right after waking up, offers your entire day to God before it even begins.
What is the Morning Offering?
This modern teenage saint called the Eucharist "my highway to heaven" and built a website cataloguing Eucharistic miracles.
Who is St. Carlo Acutis?
At the Last Supper, Jesus took bread, blessed it, and said, "Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my ___."
What is "Body"?
This is the final part of Mass, where the priest sends the people out — its Latin name is actually where we get the word "Mass."
What is the Dismissal ("Ite, missa est")?
Name some reasons why people would offer a spiritual bouquet.
What is for someone who is sick?
What is to celebrate a sacramental milestone?
What is to aid the deceased?
This brief prayer said before eating connects an everyday meal to gratitude for God's gifts.
What is Grace (saying grace)?
This Dominican friar and theologian wrote the hymns "Pange Lingua" and "Tantum Ergo" in honor of the Eucharist.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
In this Gospel chapter, Jesus says "I am the Bread of Life," and many of his disciples leave him because of it.
What is John chapter 6?
Right before Communion, we say this three times, echoing a Roman centurion's words of humility to Jesus.
What is "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you..."?
This is the best time to complete a spiritual bouquet.
When is all the time?
This is the name for a short visit to a church just to sit quietly with Jesus present in the tabernacle.
What is a visit to the Blessed Sacrament (Eucharistic Adoration/Visitation)?
This young martyr died protecting the Eucharist from being desecrated while secretly carrying it to persecuted Christians, and is now a patron of altar servers.
Who is St. Tarcisius?
On the road to this town, two disciples finally recognized the Risen Jesus "in the breaking of the bread."
What is Emmaus?
This part of Mass, right after the homily, is when the whole community professes their faith together out loud
What is the Creed?
This is the word for the specific person or cause you dedicate a prayer or sacrifice toward in a spiritual bouquet.
What is an intention?
This end-of-day prayer practice, rooted in Ignatian spirituality, involves reviewing where you felt close to and far from God.
What is the Examen?
Known as "The Apostle of the Eucharist," this 19th-century French priest founded a religious congregation devoted to Eucharistic adoration.
Who is St. Peter Julian Eymard?
Jesus multiplied these two foods to feed the five thousand, an event many see as pointing toward the Eucharist.
What are loaves and fish?
This is the theological term for the true, real, and substantial change of bread and wine into Christ's Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
What is transubstantiation?
This virtue is shown when you actually follow through on your spiritual bouquet promise, even after the event has passed.
What is faithfulness (or perseverance)?
This phrase describes uniting a small daily annoyance or sacrifice with Christ's sacrifice on the altar.
What is "offering it up"?
This Italian Capuchin priest bore the stigmata and was known to spend hours in prayerful thanksgiving after offering Mass.
Who is St. Padre Pio?
St. Paul warns that receiving the Eucharist unworthily means someone is guilty of sinning against this, in his first letter to this community.
What is the Body and Blood of the Lord (1 Corinthians 11)?