Lesson 1: BasicDefinition
Lesson 2: Eucharist as Thanksgiving Worship
Lesson 3: Eucharist as Sacrifice Sacrament
Lesson 4: Eucharist as Presence Sacrament
Lesson 5: Eucharist as Pledge of Future Glory
Lesson 6: Eucharist as Communion Sacrament
Lesson 7: Fruits of Receiving Communion
Lesson 8: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Main Topic:
Eucharist
3.
John 6:54-57
OPENING
"Dear Lord,
ThankYou for this opportunity to speak about
the Holy Eucharist. Please guide my words and
open the hearts of those listening. Help me to
share the beauty and mystery of this
sacrament with clarity and reverence. May this
presentation deepen our understanding of
Your love and draw us closer to You, as we
reflect on the gift of the Body and Blood of
Christ.
In Jesus’ name, Amen."
4.
Whoever eats myflesh and drinks my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true
drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the
living Father sent me and I have life because of
the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will
have life because of me.
John 6:54-57
MOTIVATIO
THE SACRAMENT OFTHE
HOLY EUCHARIST
LESSON
1
Basic Description of
9.
OBJECTIVES
• To pointout the basic description of the
Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
10.
What is The
Eucharist?
•The Eucharist is a memorial of Christ’s death and resurrection.
• The Eucharist is a sacrament of love, a sign of unity and bond
to charity.
• The Eucharist is a Paschal Banquet in which Christ is
consumed.
• The Eucharist is a pledge of future glory.
11.
• The holyeucharist was instituted by christ at the last supper, the night
before he died on the cross.
• The Christian community, the church, celebrates with Christ the holy
eucharist.
• The Holy Eucharist is a sacrifice and a meal.
• Christ is really present in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist
• The Holy Eucharist is the eschatological pledge, a forestate of future
glory.
Basic
Summary
12.
Did you
know?
Who isThe Patron Saint of the
Sacrament of the Holy
Eucharist?
Paschal Baylón was a Saint born in May 24
1540 and died in May 17 1592, he was a
Spanish Roman Catholic lay professed
religious of the Order of Friars Minor. He
served as a shepherd alongside his father
in his childhood and adolescence, but
desired to enter the religious life.
OBJECTIVES
• To explainthe eucharist as a thanksgiving
worship
• To recall one’s blessings in life and thank god
15.
• During theMass, we celebrate Christ's passion, death, and
resurrection-His Paschal mystery. This celebration brings us
together as a community in Christ to thank, praise and adore
God for one sacrifice that brought salvation to humankind.
• The Eucharistic celebration as thanksgiving is directed
toward God the Father through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.
This is called Trinitarian Eucharistic Worship.
• Therefore, the Eucharist is essentially an act of thanksgiving
(eucharistein) to the Father, a memorial (anamnesis) of
Christ's Pasch, and an invocation (epiclesis) of the Holy Spirit.
Anamnesis - a
recalling to mind,
or reminiscence
Eucharist as a Thanksgiving
Worship
Epeclisis - The
invocation of the Holy
Spirit upon the
eucharistic bread and
wine.
let us
describe!
16.
• Celebrating theEucharist makes us grow deeper in understanding
the Holy Trinity. The center of the Eucharist as thanksgiving
worship is Christ. The Eucharist covers Christ's whole life of total
self-giving to the Father.
• Only in Christ can we offer fitting worship to the Father. This is
expressed when the priest raises the gifts and proclaims:
“Through Him, in him, and in Him, in the unity of the holy spirit, all
glory and honor is yours, Almighty father, forever and ever.”
OBJECTIVES
• To discussthe eucharist as a Sacrifice
Sacrament
• To appreciate the sacrifice of the people
around
19.
• During theLast Supper with His apostles, Christ instituted the Sacrament of the
Holy Eucharist. Through the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, His bloody sacrifice
could be continued through all the years after His death. This is evident in Luke
22:19-20. And having taken bread, He gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to
them, saying, "This is My body, which is being given for you; do this in
remembrance of me." In like manner He took also the cup after the supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which shall be shed for you."
How is The Eucharist
a
Sacrifice Sacrament?
20.
How is TheEucharist
a
Sacrifice Sacrament?
• Christ's sacrifice on the cross that happened on Calvary 2,000 years ago is
made present through the celebration of the Holy Mass. The Eucharist is a
sacrifice because Christ is present precisely as "offering Himself for us as a
sacrifice to the Father" (EM 3 b).
• "Our Savior Himself is present in His total offering of Himself to the Father. In
the Eucharist, the Death and Resurrection of Christ are not just remembered,
but effectively proclaimed and made present" (CFC 1690).
OBJECTIVES
• To discussthe eucharist as presence
sacrament
• To point out the meaning of christ’s real
presence in the holy eucharist
24.
Let us
Discuss!
How doesthe Christ’s
Presence in everyday life
differ from his presence in
the Eucharist?
25.
• Christ's passion,death, and resurrection, through the celebration of the Holy Mass, do not only
remember and proclaim but make Christ's truly present.
• In this world, presence often refers to physical presence. It is how it is understood and wanted to
be experienced. It is what people ask from someone they love. However, there are comforting
words such as "I may not be there physically, but my spirit does".
• In the Eucharist, Christ is present to us through the consecrated hosts and wine. The consecrated
host and/or the wine does not symbolize Christ but is Christ. It is Christ's REAL PRESENCE. We can
understand Christ's personal presence in the following essentials
How is The Eucharist
a
Presence Sacrament?
26.
a. Christ's presenceis sacramental in the sense that He is present through the signs of bread
and wine, seen through the eyes of FAITH of the faithful.
b. Christ's presence is personal in the sense that He enters into personal communion with
each member of Christian community, the Church.
C. Christ's presence is in His glorified body. Christ has died and resurrected 2,000 years ago.
His risen Body is sacramentally present in all the tabernacles of the world.
d. Christ's presence in the consecrated bread and wine is a dynamic and lasting, effective sign
of His love for us (cf. CFC 1724).
• In the Eucharist, the bread and wine undergo a radical change known as
transubstantiation. It means that through the power of the Holy Spirit, the earthly or
physical substance of bread and wine is changed into reality of different level-the RISEN
GLORIFIED CHRIST.
OBJECTIVES
• To Explainthe Eucharist as Pledge of Future
glory
• To determine the implication of the Eucharist
as eschatological meal
29.
• The Eucharistis not only a memorial of Christ's passion and death nor merely
a present meal for filling our souls with grace.
• It is also a pledge for our future glory (cf. CCC 1402-4). So at the Consecration
of the Mass we acclaim, "Christ has died (Past), Christ is risen (Present), Christ
will come again (Future)." At the Communion, the priest celebrant pleads for
deliverance from all evil and sin "as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of
our Savior, Jesus Christ." Thus, in every Mass, we echo the ancient prayer,
"Maranatha-come Lord Jesus!" (1 Corinthians 16:22) Vatican II describes the
specifically future (eschatological) dimension of the Eucharist as follows:
How is the Eucharist a Pledge of
Future Glory?
30.
• Christ leftto His followers a pledge of this hope and food for the journey in the sacrament
of faith, in which natural elements, the fruits of man's cultivation, are changed into His
glorified Body and Blood, as a supper of brotherly fellowship and a foretaste of the
heavenly banquet (GS 38; CFC 1730). Christ is the Living Bread that by partaking in His
Body and Blood, we experience fellowship and foretaste of banquet in God's family. The
Eucharist is not merely a meal of an ordinary family but a meal shared by God and all His
creations, in heaven and on earth.
• The hope for future glory is expressed in celebrating the Eucharist as an eschatological
meal, "until He comes" (1 Corinthians 11:26)... this Eucharistic hope embraces both the
individual believer and the whole world as well. "What we await are new heavens and a
new earth where, according to His promise, the justice of God will reside" (2 Peter 3:13;
CFC 1731).
OBJECTIVES
• To discussthe eucharist as a communion
sacrament
• To describe how each member of christian
community be in communion with Christ in
the Eucharist
33.
Spiritual Communion isa Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ
in the Holy Eucharist. Christ instituted the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist to
bring about unity of the Church.
The celebration of the Holy Eucharist draws and welds us together into the
compelling love of Christ. Reception of the body and blood of Christ satisfies
our hunger for Christ. There are three important elements in sharing the
Eucharistic meal:
How is the Eucharist a
Communion Sacrament?
34.
a. Coming together(gathering of the Catholics in an assembly)
b. Dialogue (God speaks through the readings of the Scripture and the faithful
respond through the Creed and General Intercessions)
c. Sharing of food (the reception of the body and blood of Christ)
Furthermore, the Eucharist effects the building up of the Church. St. Augustine
admonishes, "If you are the body of Christ and His members, the Eucharist is your
sacrament that is placed on the Lord's table... You hear the words 'Body of Christ' and
you answer 'Amen.' Be therefore a member of Christ so that your 'Amen' can be real."
Sermo 272, quoted in CCC 1396
How is the Eucharist a
Communion Sacrament?
35.
The reality andthe main reason of the Eucharistic
meal rest on the promise made by Christ Himself:
"I am the living bread that came down from
heaven Whoever eats this bread will live forever;
And the bread that I will give is my flesh for the
life of the world Whoever eats My flesh and drinks
My blood has eternal life And I will raise him up
on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My
blood is true drink Whoever eats My flesh and
drinks My blood remains in Me and I in him,The
one who feeds on Me will have life because of
John 6:51, 54-
57
LESSON 7
The CatholicChurch teaches that “all the effects that
material food and drink does for the life of the body--preserves,
increases, renews, and delights--the Eucharist produces for the
spiritual life” (Council of Florence, ND 1511).
39.
a. Union withChrist
The first effect of the Eucharist is to unite us to
Christ.
“Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood
remains
in Me and I in him” (John 6:56).
b. Separates us from sin
As bodily food restores our physical energies, so the Eucharist is a
"remedy
to free us from our daily faults and to preserve us from mortal sin"
(Council
of Trent, ND 1515; cf. CCC 1395). (CFC 1718)
40.
c. To reconcileand be reconciled
This is one of the major effects of the Holy Eucharist. The Eucharist is the
"Sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity" God is merciful and
forgives sinners with a contrite heart. It is so because He loves them.
Same love should motivate them to reconcile themselves with God and
one another. In the Eucharist, people confess and seek for forgiveness
when they say, "I confess to Almighty God and to you my brothers and
sisters".
41.
c. To reconcileand be reconciled
This is one of the major effects of the Holy
Eucharist. The Eucharist is the "Sacrament of love, a
sign of unity, a bond of charity" God is merciful and
forgives sinners with a contrite heart. It is so
because He loves them. Same love should motivate
them to reconcile themselves with God and one
another. In the Eucharist, people confess and seek
for forgiveness when they say, "I confess to
Almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters".
Let us describe!
Mortal sin - a gravely
sinful act which can lead
to eternal punishment if
a person fails to repent
before death
Charity - in Christianity,
the highest form of love
characterized by
unselfishness
OBJECTIVES
• To discussthe eucharist as presence
sacrament
• To point out the meaning of christ’s real
presence in the holy eucharist
44.
The practice ofreserving consecrated hosts was initially to offer Viaticum to
the dying, and Holy Communion to the sick and disabled. This practice of
reservation of Eucharist "led to the praiseworthy custom of adoring the
heavenly food preserved in churches" (EM 49). Belief in the real presence of
our Lord Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of Love naturally developed into
various forms of Eucharistic devotion: personal prayer before the Blessed
Sacrament, hours of adoration, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and
the Church-wide celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi (cf. DC 3). (CFC
1733)
Adoration of the Blessed
Sacrament
45.
The adoration ofthe Blessed Sacrament has a valid and firm foundation (Eucharisticum
Mysterium 49-Instruction on Eucharistic Worship). The Risen Christ's presence in the
Eucharist is:
• not a momentary gift, but enduring; Christ's presence is not limited by physical
presence. Christ is divine. He is eternal and so with His presence to us.
• not a one-sided relation, but mutual; Christ makes Himself present to all. But for
believer to experience Him, it requires free will, openness, and humility.
• not simply physical, but personal and spiritual; Christ's presence goes beyond the
physical, material presence. His presence goes beyond what eyes and ears can
experience. It is spiritual.
• not just of this world, but even now reaching beyond death to eternal life. Christ's
presence is not only here on earth, but whoever believes will continue to experience
Him now and forever.
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