EUCHARIST- can u pleez answer the following questions.?

Question

What is the Eucharist?
How is the Eucharist celebrated?
Significance of the bread and wine?
Why do Christians celebrate the Eucharist?

pleez dont give me the link to the wikipedia/encyclopedia because i need basic but true facts not the history of christianity.
thank you.

Answer 1

"What is the Eucharist?"

Eucharist is a sacrament of the catholic Church in which we receive the Body and Blood Of Jesus Christ.

"How is the Eucharist celebrated?"

Eucharist is celebrated as a part of the Catholic Mass. The priest consecrates the bread and wine and it becomes the Body and Blood of Christ. The people then receive the Body and Blookd of Christ.

"Significance of the bread and wine?"

Bread and wine were the elements used by Jesus Chgrist when He initiated the sacrament of Eucharist at teh last Supper. In keeping with tradition, the bread is an unleavened bread made of wheat flour and water and the wine is made of grapes.

"Why do Christians celebrate the Eucharist?"

Jusus commanded us to celebrate the Eucharist. We celebrate the Eucharist in order to receive the Body and Blood of Jesus. This places us into a fuller communion with Him and with others who receive Eucharist. Receiving Eucharist also forgives us of veniel sins.

Answer 2

What is the Eucharist ?

The Eucharist is spiritual communion with " GOD ".
Gratitude, Grateful,Favor,Grace,Rejoice.

How is the Eucharist celebrated ?
The Eucharist is celebrated in the Holy Mass of the Church.

Significance of the bread and wine ?
The bread significance the true body of Christ.
The wine significance the true blood of Christ.

Why do Christians celebrate the Eucharist ?
To receive the body and blood of Christ.
To receive " GOD " Grace and Favor.
To Rejoice, have Gratitude and be Grateful.

Answer 3

Eucharist is the high light of the mass celebrated in the Catholic Church! A Eucharistic prayer is said before the celebration. The breaking of the bread and the blessing of the wine! Jesus gave us His physical body and blood and together with His soul and Divinity! It is a communion of saints on earth and heaven. It is the Lamb's supper, the feast of heaven and earth! For every Eucharistic celebrated on earth, heaven celebrates together that very same Eucharistic feast!

Answer 4

The Holy Eucharist is the oldest experience of Christian worship as well as the most distinctive. Eucharist comes from the Greek word which means thanksgiving. In a particular sense, the word describes the most important form of the Church's attitude towards life itself. The origin of the Eucharist is traced to the Last Supper at which Christ instructed His disciples to offer bread and wine in His memory. The Eucharist is the most distinctive event of Christian worship because in it the Church gathers to remember and celebrate the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ and, thereby, to participate in the mystery of Salvation.
Jesus said, in St. John 6;53 ' except you eat the flesh of the Son of man you have no life in you". He also, at the Last Supper, commanded believers to partake of bread and wine representing His body and blood, in memory of Him. These are two vital reasons for celebrating the Eurcharist. You may like to read this link (which unfortunately contains a number of spelling mistakes!) http://www.raysofsonlight.com/prototypes_archives.phtml?arc=16

Answer 5

These things all depend on one's denomination. In mine, the bread and wine are symbolic. Other denominations take a more literal interpretation of Christ's words "This bread is my body; this cup is my blood." Go to your Bible and look up I Cor 11. Read through there. It shouldn't take you long. The Apostle Paul explains what these things are. He doesn't use the word 'Eucharist,' but that's what he's talking about: remembering an ordinance Christ gave at His last supper with His followers before He was crucified.

I know you want instant answers, but I must caution you to do your own research. Otherwise, all you're getting is hearsay. You don't know if it's true or not. Go look up the word in a dictionary (online is fine) or two. That'll tell you what it is. Go read I Cor 11. That'll tell you why we do it and what it means to us. How it's done varies widely from church to church, even within a single denomination -- and even more widely from denomination to denomination. Ask someone at your own church or school to tell you how its done.

Answer 6

It is the corporeal real presence of Christ in the appearance of bread and wine. It is celebrated in the Mass. The bread and the wine become the body and the blood of Christ. We celebrate it because Jesus told us to at the Last Supper.

Catholics see the Scriptures written about the Eucharist as literal teaching by Jesus and have interpreted Jesus’ words as literal since before the NT Scriptures were written as recorded in Scripture. Catholics find no reason to interpret Jesus’ teaching to be anything but literal from a hermeneutical, historical or theological perspective.

Some Protestants, on the other hand, are very much like the proto-Protestants who were former disciples and left Jesus after His teaching in John 6, about the commandment to eat His Body and drink His Blood. They remain in the carnal sense and deny the miracle of the Eucharist. They believe that instead of being present at the one sacrifice of Christ, that what Jesus instituted is a symbolic ordinance instead.

So, what we are speaking of is two totally different practices. The first identical to what the apostles taught and put into practice which is the real presence and the second a modernist interpretation of a man Ulrich Zwingli which is a symbolic ordinance. The first is actually Christ on the Cross where the worshippers are at the foot of the cross; the second is just a remembering of what Christ did as recorded in the Bible. When a Catholic Christian remembers Christ’s sacrifice it is from being there, when a Protestant remembers Christ’s sacrifice it is recalling what is written in Scriptures about the event. Certainly, one should be able to understand the level of passion one would have after being at the foot of the cross compared to the level of one just remembering what is written in a book. So even though you and others do not take it lightly, even though you do not believe, it cannot be the same passion for an exercise or ordinance in supposed obedience, as the Protestant act can be described; to the Catholic practice of being present with the living corporeal Christ at the cross and eating His real body and Blood as He commanded.

It must be noted for understanding that for many of the Reformers that this approach by Zwingli was necessary to give some credibility to the new Protestant movement which denied the successive apostolic leadership of the Church established by Christ. These reformers knew full well that they had no true legitimacy and no authority from Christ. They also knew that without a legitimate episcopacy that they could not continue Holy Orders, the Sacraments nor do they have the authority to confect the Eucharist which authority can only be given by Christ through the Church. Therefore, they could not continue the Eucharist even if they desired without a valid priesthood.

So, I am not saying that I do not believe that Protestant communion service is not special or a sign of unity but it is to me a sign of unity for a false, heretical belief outside of historical, Traditional and orthodox Christianity and is a doctrine of men warned about in the Gospels.

(Mat 15:7 DRB) Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:

(Mat 15:8 DRB) This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

(Mat 15:9 DRB) And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

(Mar 7:5 DRB) And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

(Mar 7:6 DRB) But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

(Mar 7:7 DRB) And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men.

(Mar 7:8 DRB) For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

(Mar 7:9 DRB) And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

(Luk 6:46 DRB) And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I say?

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 7

bread is for the lords body and wine in rememberence in the blood he shed. Eucharist is communion

Answer 8

A sacrament and the central act of worship in many Christian churches, which was instituted at the Last Supper and in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed in remembrance of Jesus's death; Communion.
The consecrated elements of this rite; Communion.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

The Mass is a true Sacrifice: Christ, as the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, offers the graces of His once and for all Sacrifice on the Cross to us sacramentally under the appearances of bread and wine through the ministry of His ordained priests.

Christ's ordained priests offer Christ to the Father under the appearances of bread and wine. Christ is really and truly present, under the appearance of bread and wine, in every way: Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

John 6:51-69
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? [Note: if all Our Lord was talking about was a monthly-or-so gathering together to sing "Shine, Jesus, Shine" and eat some bread in memory of Him, how could it be such a "hard saying"?]

When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

At the Sacrifice of the Mass, the Catholic priest offers that same Sacrifice to the Father, and then eats and offers to us the glorified Body of Christ in a form whose "accidents" look like bread and wine after the order of Melchizedek. Calvary is pulled out of time and re-presented before our very eyes! Read again: St. John's Heavenly vision of our Lord, glorified and ascended, is that of a "Lamb as it had been slain" (Revelation 5:6) with an Altar (Revelation 8:3), whence He offers Himself to us in "hidden manna" (Revelation 2:17), the Eucharist. Even in Heaven, the resurrected, glorified Christ, the King of Kings, appears as a "lamb as it had been slain," the perfect Oblation.