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The Eucharist , also called Holy Communion , Sacrament of the Table , the Blessed Sacrament , or The Lord's Supper and other names, is a Christian sacrament or ordinance, generally considere...
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Questions about The Holy Eucharist ... 343. What is the Holy Eucharist? ... The Holy Eucharist is a sacrament and a sacrifice. In the Holy Eucharist, under the appearances of bread and wine, the Lord Christ is contained, offered, and received.
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The Holy Eucharist ... Paul VI, Mysterium fidei (On the Holy Eucharist) ... John Paul II, Inaestimabile donum (On the Holy Eucharist)
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The effects of the holy Eucharist ... The first and principal effect of the Holy Eucharist is union with Christ by love (Decr. pro Armenis: adunatio ad Christum), which union as such does not consist in the sacramental reception of the Host, but in the spiritual and mystical union with Jesus by the theological virtue of love.
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Permanence of Presence and the Adorableness of the Eucharist ... Besides this, Christ intended to institute the Eucharist as a most holy sacrament, to be solemnly celebrated in the Church even to the end of time.
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For Christians, the Holy Eucharist is the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of Calvary. It is not a new sacrifice, but a continuation of our Lord's self-immolation, which transcends all time and place. In communion, a Christian receives our Lord and also offers himself to the Lord: it is an exchange of persons.
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Early Christians on the Holy Eucharist ... [Some of these are duplicated in the main document on the Eucharist. Most are from William Jurgens, Faith of the Early Fathers.] ... Clement of Rome (80 A.D.) in Corinthians 36:1 refers to the Eucharist as the ``offering of the gift.'' St. Clement, bishop of Rome, 80 A.D.,
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1322 The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.
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