The Eucharist in Community

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The Eucharist in Community
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Catholic Belief of the Eucharist

• "The sharing in the divine nature given to men
  through the grace of Christ bears a certain
  likeness to the origin, development, and
  nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born
  anew by Baptism, strengthened by the sacrament of
  Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the
  food of eternal life. By means of these
  sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus
  receive in increasing measure the treasures of
  the divine life and advance toward the perfection
  of charity."
• From Catechism of the Catholic Church 1212.

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Mark 1412-17

• On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened
  Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the
  Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where
  do you want us to go and make preparations for
  you to eat the Passover?"
• So he sent two of his disciples, telling them,
  "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of
  water will meet you. Follow him. Say to the owner
  of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks Where
  is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover
  with my disciples?' He will show you a large
  upper room, furnished and ready. Make
  preparations for us there."
• The disciples left, went into the city and found
  things just as Jesus had told them. So they
  prepared the Passover.
• When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.

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Mark 1422-26

• While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave
  thanks and broke it, and gave it to his
  disciples, saying, "Take it this is my body."
• Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it
  to them, and they all drank from it.
• "This is my blood of the covenant, which is
  poured out for many," he said to them. "I tell
  you the truth, I will not drink again of the
  fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it
  anew in the kingdom of God."
• When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the
  Mount of Olives.

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Mark 1422-26
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Mark 86-7

• He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When
  he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks,
  he broke them and gave them to his disciples to
  set before the people, and they did so. They had
  a few small fish as well he gave thanks for them
  also and told the disciples to distribute them.

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TAKE
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BLESS
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Exodus 1215
For seven days you are to eat bread made without
yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from
your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast
in it from the first day through the seventh must
be cut off from Israel."
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BREAK
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Isaiah 535,10
Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause
him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life
a guilt offering...
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he
was crushed for our iniquities the punishment
that brought us peace was upon him, and by his
wounds we are healed.
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1 Cor 1017
Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are
one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
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GIVE
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Luke 2430-31
When he was at the table with them, he took
bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it
to them. Then their eyes were opened and they
recognized him, and he disappeared from their
sight.
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Acts 242-47

• They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching
  and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread
  and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and
  many wonders and miraculous signs were done by
  the apostles. All the believers were together and
  had everything in common. Selling their
  possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he
  had need. Every day they continued to meet
  together in the temple courts. They broke bread
  in their homes and ate together with glad and
  sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the
  favor of all the people. And the Lord added to
  their number daily those who were being saved.

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The Eucharist in Community

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