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The Eucharist Makes the Church

The Eucharist Makes the Church. Richard Gaillardetz, Ph.D. Henri de Lubac:. “The church makes the eucharist and the eucharist makes the church .”. The Venerable Bede:. “every day the church gives birth to the church .”. How the Eucharist Builds up the Church:. The Liturgy of the Word

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The Eucharist Makes the Church

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  1. The Eucharist Makes the Church Richard Gaillardetz, Ph.D.

  2. Henri de Lubac: “The church makes the eucharist and the eucharist makes the church.”

  3. The Venerable Bede: “every day the church gives birth to the church.”

  4. How the Eucharist Builds up the Church: • The Liturgy of the Word • Christ’s Eucharistic Presence in the Church • The Eucharistic Sacrifice • Sending the Church in Mission

  5. I. The Liturgy of the Word Pope John Paul II: “It has long been possible to apply to the Mass the comparison, made by the Fathers, with the two tables, at which the Church prepares for her children the word of God and the Eucharist, that is, the bread of the Lord.”

  6. True Nature of the Scriptures is Revealed in the Liturgy • The Procession of the Scriptures: We Are a Community of Memory • The Proclamation of the Scriptures: The Written Word Becomes a Proclaimed Word • The Proclaimed Word of God is “Received” by the Assembly in a Silent Dialogue

  7. I. The Liturgy of the Word Pope John Paul II: …the liturgical proclamation of the Word of God…is not so much a time for meditation and catechesis as a dialogue between God and his people….”

  8. True Nature of the Scriptures is Revealed in the Liturgy • The Procession of the Scriptures: We Are a Community of Memory • The Proclamation of the Scriptures: The Written Word Becomes a Proclaimed Word • The Proclaimed Word of God is “Received” by the Assembly in a Silent Dialogue • The Scriptures are Proclaimed Under the Presidency of an Apostolic Minister

  9. II. Christ’s Eucharistic Presence in the Church Pope Leo the Great: “Our partaking of Christ's body and blood only aims at transforming us into what we are receiving, at making us take on in everything, in body and spirit, the one in whom we have died, been buried and risen again .”

  10. II. Christ’s Eucharistic Presence in the Church St. Augustine: “Since you are the Body of Christ and His members, it is your mystery that is placed on the Lord’s table, it is your mystery that you receive… Be what you see, and receive what you are.”

  11. II. Christ’s Eucharistic Presence in the Church St. John Chrysostum: “For what is the bread? It is the body of Christ. And what do those who receive it become? The Body of Christ – not many bodies but one body. For as bread is completely one, though made of up many grains of wheat, and these, albeit unseen, remain nonetheless present, in such a way that their difference is not apparent since they have been made a perfect whole, so too are we mutually joined to one another and together united with Christ .”

  12. III. Re-Thinking the Eucharistic Sacrifice Pope Benedict XVI: “The Eucharist draws us into Jesus' act of self-oblation. More than just statically receiving the incarnate Logos, we enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving. The imagery of marriage between God and Israel is now realized in a way previously inconceivable: it had meant standing in God's presence, but now it becomes union with God through sharing in Jesus' self-gift, sharing in his body and blood (DCE # 13).…”

  13. III. Re-Thinking the Eucharistic Sacrifice • The Eucharist is a Paschal Action • The Church is Where we Learn the Paschal “Dance”

  14. IV: The Eucharist and the Mission of the Church St. John Chrysostom: Do you wish to honour the body of Christ? Do not ignore him when he is naked. Do not pay him homage in the temple clad in silk, only then to neglect him outside where he is cold and ill-clad. He who said: 'This is my body' is the same who said: 'You saw me hungry and you gave me no food', and 'Whatever you did to the least of my brothers you did also to me' ... What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well

  15. Conclusion: The Eucharist and the Mission of the Church Pope Benedict XVI: In the Church's Liturgy, in her prayer, in the living community of believers, we experience the love of God, we perceive his presence and we thus learn to recognize that presence in our daily lives (DCE # 17).

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