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500 BCE
the story of the pass over
Why is the story called Passover?
God is said to have told Moses to tell the Israelites to paint lamb's blood on their doorposts. This way, the angel would know that Jewish people lived there. It would pass over that house and not kill the first-born child. This is where the name Passover comes from. -
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What is the “Real Presence”?
The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ is present in the Eucharist, not merely symbolically or metaphorically, but in a true, real and substantial way. -
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the last supper
What does Jesus do in the Eucharist?
Jesus took bread and gave thanks to God. He said, "This is my body," and gave the bread to His Apostles. Then He took a cup of wine and said, "This is my blood." He gave the cup of wine to His apostles. The apostles ate the holy food. -
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The Eucharist and the Basilica
The Eucharist has formed a central rite of Christian worship. All Christians would agree that it is a memorial action in which, by eating bread and drinking wine (or, for some Protestants, grape juice or water), the church recalls what Jesus Christ was, said, and did. -
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The Eucharist in the Middle Ages
The most important act of medieval Christian worship was the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass. However, men and women attending Mass in the Middle Ages had, at times, little to see and not much to hear. The priest kept his back to the congregation and whispered the Mass in Latin. -
present day eucharist
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.