The Eucharist in Salvation History
When Jesus taught that He is the _______of Life, many of His disciples left Him because they believed that this teaching was too hard.
What is Bread?
“Thanksgiving” in Greek.
What is Eucharist?
The final meal Jesus shared with His Apostles, during which He transformed the sacred Passover meal into the Passover of the New Covenant by giving us His Body and Blood to eat in the Eucharist.
What is the Last Supper?
The Eucharist is the true Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ under the appearances of __________ and ______.
What are bread and wine?
Important feast days in the life of the Catholic Church on which, in addition to Sundays, Catholics are obligated to attend Mass, according to the precepts of the Church.
What are Holy Days of Obligation?
A title for Jesus that describes how His sacrifice on the Cross freed us from sin and death, just as the sacrifice of the original Passover freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
What is the Lamb of God?
The matter of the Eucharist.
What is bread and wine?
The essential words of the Eucharist are the words of consecration spoken by Christ.
What is “This is my body, which will be given up for you…” and “This is the cup of my blood…”?
The word used to describe the change of the bread and wine at Mass into the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ
What is Transubstantiation?
Which part of the Mass includes the following: Scripture is proclaimed, the priest teaches us in a homily, and we join in prayer to profess our faith and pray for the needs of the world and the Church?
What is the Liturgy of the Word?
A way of remembering the past that makes the original event present again
What is a memorial?
The form of the Eucharist.
What is “This is my body, which will be given up for you…” and “This is the cup of my blood…”?
If we are in a state of ______ ____, we should not receive the Eucharist until we have received the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
What is mortal sin?
In the Eucharist, the substantial forms of bread and wine are changed into the substantial form of __________________________ while keeping the accidents of bread and wine.
What is Christ's Body and Blood?
Which part of the Mass includes the following: the gifts of bread and wine are brought to the altar as an offering, the priest prays the words of consecration and changes the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and the faithful come to the altar to receive Holy Communion?
What is the Liturgy of the Eucharist?
Catholics are required to receive the Eucharist _____________, but the Church warmly invites us to receive it much more often: even daily.
What is once a year? (Specifically during the Easter season)
Two acceptable ways to receive the Eucharist.
What are on the hands or on the tongue?
In John 6, Jesus clearly teaches that we must do this order to have eternal life.
What is eat His flesh and drink His Blood?
A philosophical term that refers to what a thing is, or what is absolutely necessary to a thing being the thing that it is.
What is substance?
Why is it reasonable for the Catholic Church to ask us to attend Mass every Sunday? (Support your answer with evidence from what you have learned about the Eucharist in this unit.)
Accept reasoned answers.
This is how the original Passover foreshadows the new Passover in Christ’s sacrifice.
What is: The Israelites had to sacrifice a male lamb with no broken bones, just as Jesus gave Himself as a sacrifice and none of His bones were broken; The Israelites had to spread the blood of the lamb on their doorposts, just as Jesus shed His blood for all in the New Covenant; or God commanded the Israelites to remember the Passover, just as Jesus commanded His Apostles to remember His sacrifice in the Mass?
The Eucharist wipes away this type of sin.
What is venial?
Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection, which saved us from sin and death for new life as sons and daughters of God.
What is the Paschal Mystery?
What would you say to someone who said that the Eucharist is just a symbol of Jesus’ Body and Blood?
Accept reasoned answers.
This is the phrase that the Catechism uses to explain that the Eucharist is the origin and the highest expression of the Christian life.
What is “the source and summit of the Christian life”?