1. Celebration Christ’s saving presence in our midst
The Eucharist
Chapter 9
Celebration Christ’s saving presence in our midst

2. A sacrament of INITIATION
WHAT ARE THE OTHER 2?
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3. What does The Eucharist Celebrate?
Remembering Love Shared, Life Poured Out
A ritual meal
Sacrifice
The Real Presence
The Challenge: Be the Body of Christ

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

5. 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…..

6. 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!

7. 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.
p.180

8. The Real Presence
For Catholics the Eucharist is the REAL presence of Jesus, not just the memory Read story in text Jesus is present in the Eucharist 4 ways…..

9. 4 ways In the person of the minister, the priest In the Scriptures
In the people
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.

10. Again…
TRANSUBSTANTIATION surpasses human understanding …the bread and wine are truly changed..they are not just symbols
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11. 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 Read story in text… Jimmy Place’s funeral Mass Moments will transform you

12. The Challenge of the Eucharist
BECOMING WHAT YOU RECEIVE
A mirror of everyday life….
A welcoming community that offers peace, reconciliation and sharing
This is difficult to do…p. 186
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13. Bread for a Hungry World
Physical hunger, unjust economic systems
Hunger for hope, freedom, companionship, sense of community
Earth is hungry to have its health restored.

14. Rituals of the Eucharist