Eucharist in the Catholic Church

The Eucharist ( ; from , ), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the '''Lord's Supper''', is a Christian rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others. Christians believe that the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, the night before his crucifixion, giving his disciples bread and wine. Passages in the New Testament state that he commanded them to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the cup of wine as "the blood of my covenant, which is poured out for many". According to the synoptic Gospels, this

central and main rite of worship to God in the Catholic Church

Catholic feast day, public holiday in some countries

thumb|The Eucharist, which the Catholic Church teaches to be the Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist|real presence of [[Christ, exposed for adoration at Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada]] Transubstantiation (, ) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ". This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, "the o

Christian rite

Christian Eucharistic ceremony, typically occurs between the ages of seven and thirteen

Latin Christian hymn text written by St Thomas Aquinas

Latin hymn

Latin hymn by St. Thomas Aquinas

sequence prescribed for the Roman Catholic Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi

encyclical

Catholic liturgy

form of sacrilege in some Christian denominations

1965 encyclical of Pope Paul VI

Christian iconography symbol

papal decree concerning the admittance of children to the Eucharist

Eucharist liturgies sometimes using the phase

Intinction is the Eucharistic practice of partly dipping the consecrated bread, or host, into the consecrated wine before consumption by the communicant.

Latin Christian hymn text by Thomas Aquinas

Christian spiritual practice

Roman Catholic liturgical action

lay person who distributes Holy Communion in the Catholic Church

Transignification is an idea originating from the attempts of Roman Catholic theologians, especially Edward Schillebeeckx, to better understand the mystery of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist in light of a new philosophy of the nature of reality that is more in line with contemporary physics.

Feature of a church