Module 6 - Religious Ritual Flashcards
Eucharist (31 cards)
Name a Catholic ritual
Eucharist
What is the purpose of Eucharist?
Transubstantiation: Belief that the consecrated bread/wine are actually the body and blood of Christ
- become more like Christ in his humility, obedience to the Father and love of neighbour
What graces are received during Eucharist?
- Strengthens personal/spiritual relationship between ourselves and Jesus Christ
- Forgives our venial sins and helps us grow in holiness
- Provides spiritual strength to resist temptations and avoid future sins.
What is the Catechism understanding of the Eucharist?
- “The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.” - (CCC#1322)
- “From the liturgy, therefore, and especially from the Eucharists, as a fountain, grace is channelled into us.” Sacrosanctum Concilum #10
What are four key features of Eucharist?
- Thanksgiving
- Sacred Meal
- Holy Sacrifice
- Blessed Sacrament
Thanksgiving: Where does the word “Eucharist” come from?
The greek word ‘eucharistein’ meaning ‘giving thanks’.
Why do we do thank God when we celebrate the Eucharist?
- For the good gifts he’s bestowed on us.
- For work of salvation
- For the gift of life and beauty of all creation
- For showering us with many gifts and blessings
- For the new covenant established by God for Jesus’s Passover and our own passover.
What does Eucharist as a sacred meal mean?
It is a sacred meal that commemorates Jesus’ Last Supper with his apostles.
The NT accounts that describe the first Eucharist shows that it began at the Last Supper as a meal within a meal.
How does this teaching relate to the Passover?
- The NT connects several of Jesus’s resurrection appearances with the eating of a meal, notable when he joins some disciples on the road to Emmaus.
What happens in Luke 24:13-25?
The disciples recounted the days’ events to Jesus, failing to recognise him.
Jesus then explained the scriptures to them but they still didn’t recognise him.
They only came to know him in the ‘breaking of the bread’
What is the significance of the meal symbolism?
It was a sacred/joyous time for Jews - reminded them of God’s goodness/fidelity to his promise of rescuing them from Egypt.
Renewed God’s covenant and helped solidify Jewish people as God’s chosen ones.
Helps understand rich meaning of Jesus’ actions
What do meals symbolise?
Companionship, friendship and love.
Sharing the same food/drink signifies unity of the heart, spirit and mind.
Helps create and celebrate memories.
Jesus transformed the unleavened bread of passover meal into his body.
Holy Sacrifice: What was another symbol of the passover meal?
The Paschal lamb, which the Jews offered as a sacrifice to God
Holy Sacrifice: What do Luke and John suggest?
As Luke suggests and John’s gospel clearly indicates, Jesus became new Paschal lamb, the perfect victim who offered his life for all people.
The Passover meal signified the old covenant; Jesus’ sacrificial death and resurrection begin the new covenant.
Holy Sacrifice: What do Christians believe about the Eucharistic sacrifice?
Catholics believe that Jesus himself instituted the eucharistic sacrifice at the Last Supper.
What does the Eucharist celebrate?
The eucharist celebrates Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, the supreme sign of his love for us.
Jesus, God’s Son, is also the perfect human being, our representative before God.
What is a religious ritual?
In religious ritual, a sacrifice is the offering of a victim or a gift by a priest to God.
The sacrifice comes about by the destruction of the offering in some way
What is a sacrifice?
The meaning of the word sacrifice comes from a Latin word that means ‘to make holy’ or ‘to do something holy’.
Holiness refers to sharing God’s life. Only God can make us holy.
What is the purpose of sacrificing to God?
To adore God and to acknowledge Him as the source of our life and the creator of all.
We also sacrifice to atone for our sins, to give thanks for God’s goodness, and to petition God for favours.
What is a sacrament?
All sacraments are symbols in that they bring about what they symbolise and symbolise what they bring about
What is the significance of the Eucharist?
As the last sacrament of initiation, the eucharist makes us full members of the church.
We may now receive the risen Lord himself under the sacramental forms of bread and wine.
What do we receive during the Eucharist?
In the eucharist, we receive Christ himself, whole and entire, God and human.
The eucharist is the perfect worship we can give to God and the greatest gift we can receive from God.
What is the significance of the Eucharist to the Church?
The eucharist is the heart of Catholic life.
It’s the source, centre, and summit of the whole life of the church.
It is the sacrament from which all others come and the one to which the others point.
Why is the Eucharist known as the ‘blessed sacrament’?
Because of the blessings it bestows.
