Eucharist in the Catholic Church
The Last Supper as represented by Leonardo
da Vinci
Eucharist in the Catholic Church refers to
both the celebration of the Mass, that is the
Eucharistic Liturgy, and the consecrated
bread and wine which according to the faith
become the body and blood of Christ. Blessed
Sacrament is a devotional term used in the
Roman Catholic Church to refer to the
Eucharistic species (the Body and Blood of
Christ).
Scriptural foundations
Part of the series on
Communion
also known as
"The Eucharist" or
"The Lord’s Supper"
Theology
Transubstantiation
Consecration
Real Presence
Words of Institution
Impanation
Memorialism
Consubstantiation
Sacramental union
Transignification
Theologies contrasted
Eucharist (Catholic Church)
Eucharist (Lutheran Church)
Anglican Eucharistic theology
Important theologians
Paul ·Luther
Aquinas · Calvin
Chrysostom · Augustine
Zwingli
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Mass · Sacrament
Sanctification
The Breaking of the Bread (Fractio panis) at
the Eucharist[1]
The Catholic Church sees as the main
basis for this belief the words of Jesus him-
self at his Last Supper: the Synoptic Gospels
(Matthew 26-28; Mark 14:22-24;
Luke
22:19-20) and Saint Paul’s 1 Corinthians
11:23-25 recount that in that context Jesus
said of what to all appearances were bread
and wine: "This is my body … this is my
blood." Many, but not all, Protestants tend to
interpret this symbolically rather than liter-
ally, especially those of Calvinist theological
views. They see "This is my body" as parallel
with "I am the true vine" (John 15:1) or "I am
the door of the sheepfold" (John 10:9), whose
meaning is symbolic. The doctrine of a sym-
bolic Eucharist was more expressly pro-
pounded by the 16th-century Swiss reformer
Huldrych Zwingli. But all
the ancient
Churches of the East (the Eastern Orthodox
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