eucharist

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Augustine certainly did not teach that the sacrifice of the eucharist was the same as the sacrifice of Calvary.

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  1. The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving. When St. Laurence was in the midst of the torments of the gridiron, he made this to be the matter of his joy and eucharist, that he was admitted to the gates through which Jesus had entered. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 26.
  2. The sacrament of the Lord's supper; the communion; the sacrifice of the mass. See communion, mass, and transubstantiation. Of all those Comforts and Exercises of Devotion which attend that Blessing [redemption], the Eucharist or Holy Sacrament may claim the prime Place. Howell, Letters, iii. 4. The Corinthians desecrated the Holy Eucharist; but their gluttony and drunkenness did not lead St. Paul to hinder the guiltless among them from participating in that holy rite. Rock, Church of our Fathers, i. 178, note. Bingham shows that the administration of the Eucharist to infants continued in France till the twelfth century. Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 6.
  3. The consecrated elements in the Lord's supper. To imagine that, for the first five hundred years, each one of the faithful who was allowed to stay in church throughout the whole celebration of the holy sacrifice always received the eucharist at it, is no small mistake. Rock, Church of our Fathers, i. 139, note. Clement of Alexandria speaks of the ministers distributing the eucharist, that is. the elements, to the communicants. W. Smith, Dict. of Christian Antiq., I. 625.

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  • Augustine certainly did not teach that the sacrifice of the eucharist was the same as the sacrifice of Calvary. —  Reformation Theology
  • But in Roman theology the eucharist is not merely the commemoration of a sacrifice, it is itself the same sacrifice as Calvary, and the immolation is literal. —  Reformation Theology
  • Layzell has found a new appreciation for the eucharist, since moving on from Soul Survivor. —  andygoodliff
  • YouTube has begun removing videos of consecrated eucharist desecrations (as a side note, my eucharist is still in my basement growing stale … Jesus is very hard). —  Splendid Elles
  • Bleeding wafers can easily be debunked by science, but the believers will never accept it until the Church recants and admits that the eucharist is purely symbolic and transubstantiation is a product of superstitious / atavistic thinking ... —  Pharyngula
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  1. = French eucharistie = Spanish eucaristía = Portuguese eucharistia = Italian eucaristia, from Late Latin eucharistia, from Greek εὐχαριστία, thankfulness, a giving of thanks, in ecclesiastical use the sacrament of the Lord's supper (with reference to the giving of thanks before partaking of the elements), from εὐχάριστος, grateful, thankful, from εὐ, well, + χαρίζεσθαι, show favor to, gratify, please, from χάρις, grace, favor, gratitude, thanks (cf. χαρά, joy), from χαίρειν, rejoice. See grace and yearn.
 

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