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HOLY EUCHARIST

THE SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST COMPLETES CHRISTIAN INITIATION.

IT IS THE PARTICIPATION OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE LORD’S OWN SACRIFICE

BASIC DESCRIPTION OF VATICAN II

MEMORIAL OF CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTIONSACRAMENT OF LOVEPASCHAL BANQUETPLEDGE OF FUTURE GLORY

EUCHARIST: THE SOURCE AND SUMMIT OF ECCLESIAL LIFE

THE OTHER SACRAMENTS, ALL MINISTRIES AND WORKS OF THE APOSTOLATE ARE BOUND UP WITH THE EUCHARISTAND ARE ORIENTED TO IT.

THE EUCHARIST IS THE SUM AND SUMMARY OF OUR FAITH

CHRIST’S PRESENCE IN THE EUCHARIST

ASSEMBLY

MINISTER

HOLY SCRIPTURES

EUCHARISTIC SPECIES

DIFFERENT NAMES OF THIS SACRAMENT

EUCHARISTAN ACTION OF THANKSGIVING TO GOD

EUCHARISTEIN, EULOGEIN (GK)RECALL THE JEWISH BLESSINGS THAT PROCLAIM GOD’S WORKS:CREATION, REDEMPTION AND, SANCTIFICATION

I- BREAKING OF THE BREAD

JESUS USED THIS RITE, AS PART OF JEWISH MEAL,WHEN HE BLESSED AND DISTRIBUTED THE BREAD AT THE LAST SUPPER

SIGNIFIES THAT ALL WHO EAT THE ONE BROKEN BREAD ENTER INTO COMMUNION WITH CHRIST AND FORM ONE BODY WITH HIM.

II- HOLY SACRIFICE

BECAUSE IT MAKES PRESENT THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR

THE MASS CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE CROSS

III- HOLY AND DIVINE LITURGY

BECAUSE THE CHURCH’S WHOLE LITURGY

FINDS ITS CENTER AND MOST INTENSE EXPRESSION

IN THE CELEBRATION OF THIS SACRAMENT

IV- HOLY COMMUNION

BECAUSE BY THIS SACRAMENT,

WE UNITE OURSELVES TO CHRIST

WHO MAKES US SHARERS IN HIS BODY AND BLOOD TO FORM A SINGLE BODY.

V- HOLY MASS

BECAUSE IN THE LITURGY,IN WHICH THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION IS ACCOMPLISHED

CONCLUDES WITH THE SENDING FORTH (MISSION) OF THE FAITHFUL

SO THAT THEY MAY FULFILL GOD’S WILL IN THEIR DAILY LIVES

EFFECTS OF THE SACRAMENT

UNITY/COMMUNION WITH CHRISTFREEDOM FROM SIN

RECONCILIATION

PARTS OF THE MASS

ALL GATHER TOGETHER

CHRISTIANS COME TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE FOR THE EUCHARISTIC ASSEMBLY

I- INTRODUCTORY RITES

•Sign of the Cross

•Greetings

•Penitential rite

•Gloria

•Opening prayer

II- LITURGY OF THE WORD

•1ST READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT

•RESPONSORIAL PSALM

•2ND READING FROM A NON-GOSPEL NEW TESTAMENT

•ALLELUIA

•GOSPEL

•HOMILY

•PROFESSION OF FAITH

•PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

III- PRESENTATION OF GIFTS

•THE BREAD AND THE WINE ARE BROUGHT INTO THE ALTAR

•THEY WILL BE OFFERED BY THE PRIEST IN THE NAME OF CHRISTIN THE EUCHARISTIC SACRIFICE

COLLECTION

FROM THE VERY BEGINNING

CHRISTIANS HAVE BROUGHT ALONG WITH THEM

BREAD AND WINE AND

GIFTS TO SHARE WITH THOSE IN NEED

IV- LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

•INTRODUCTORY EXCHANGE

•PREFACE

•EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

•LORD’S PRAYER

•SIGN OF PEACE

•BREAKING OF BREAD

•POURING OF WINE

•COMMUNION

CORE OF LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST:

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER (ANAPHORA)

THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND CONSECRATION

IN THE (1) PREFACE, THE CHURCH GIVES THANKS TO THE FATHER THROUGH CHRIST IN THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR ALL HIS WORKS.

(2) EPICLESIS

THE CHURCH ASKS THE FATHER TO SEND HIS HOLY SPIRIT

ON THE BREAD AND WINE

SO THAT THEY MAY BECOME BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

(3) INSTITUTION NARRATIVE

THE POWER OF THE WORDS THE ACTION OF CHRIST THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

MAKE SACRAMENTALLY PRESENT UNDER THE SPECIES OF BREAD AND WINE

CHRIST’S BODY AND BLOOD HIS SACRIFICE OFFERED ON THE CROSS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

(4) ANAMNESIS

THE CHURCH CALLS TO MIND THE PASSION, RESURRECTION AND GLORIOUS RETURN OF CHRIST JESUS

(5) INTERCESSIONS

THE CHURCH INDICATES THAT THE EUCHARIST IS CELEBRATED IN COMMUNION WITH THE WHOLE CHURCH

V- CONCLUDING RITES

“GO IN PEACE TO LOVE AND SERVE THE LORD.”

“THANKS BE TO GOD.”

-CELEBRATION IS CONTINUED OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH.