Eucharist

Catholics in Middle Ages

1215 BCE

The Catholic Church became rich and powerful during the Middle Ages. People gave the church 1/10th of their earnings in tithes. They also paid the church for various sacraments such as baptism, marriage, and communion. People also paid penances to the church.

Early Christians

150 BCE

the first Christians were all Jews, who constituted a Second Temple Jewish sect with an apocalyptic eschatology. Among other schools of thought, some Jews regarded Jesus as Lord and resurrected messiah, and the eternally existing Son of God, expecting the second coming of Jesus and the start of God's Kingdom.

The Didache, who wrote the Didache?

100 BCE

It is considered to be a work of patristic literature from an unknown Apostolic Father. Some early Christian writers treated the Didache as canonical, and Egyptian authors and compilers quoted it extensively in the 4th and 5th centuries.

First breaking of the bread, what does break of the bread mean?

55 BCE

He wants to become our food in the Eucharist, where His disciples once again gather for a family meal together. Breaking the bread together literally means becoming one body in Christ, an unbreakable family bond, not just with one another, but also with God

st paul

50 BCE

St. Paul is often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. His epistles (letters) have had enormous influence on Christian theology, especially on the relationship between God the Father and Jesus, and on the mystical human relationship with the divine.

last supper

Period: 33 BCE to 33 BCE

Church teaching places the origin of the Eucharist in the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, at which he is believed to have taken bread and given it to his disciples, telling them to eat of it, because it was his body, and to have taken a cup and given it to his disciples, telling them to drink of it because it

First Christian Communities

29 BCE

Jerusalem was the first center of the church, according to the Book of Acts, and according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the location of "the first Christian church". The apostles lived and taught there for some time after

passover lamb

13 BCE

the lamb sacrificed at the first Passover, on the eve of the Exodus from Egypt, the most momentous event in Jewish history. According to the story of the Passover (Exodus, chapter 12), the Jews marked their doorposts with the blood of the lamb, and this sign spared them from destruction.

Eucharist now

2022

the prayers and readings in a Eucharistic service remind those taking part of that final meal and of the solemn words and actions of someone standing at the edge of death. The people taking part drink a sip of wine (or grape juice) and eat a tiny piece of some form of bread, both of which have been consecrated.