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Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. [2]
The Eucharist (/ ˈ juː k ər ɪ s t / YOO-kər-ist; from Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: evcharistía, lit. ' thanksgiving '), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.
One of the most spectacular works of art created by Raphael was the Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. The work is a fresco of church figures debating Transubstantiation. The work is located in Vatican City. [4] [5] Damaskinos saw the work and created his own version of the masterpiece. He created a Tribute to the Eucharist.
The Eucharist Triptych is an oil on panel painting by Grégoire Guérard, from 1515, commissioned for Autun Cathedral. The central panel shows the Last Supper, with the wings showing Abram meeting Melchizedek and the fall of the manna. On the reverse of the wings are grisaille images of the Madonna and Child and of John the Baptist.
Ichthys was adopted as a Christian symbol.. The ichthys or ichthus (/ ˈ ɪ k θ ə s / [1]), from the Greek ikhthū́s (ἰχθύς, 1st cent.AD Koine Greek pronunciation: [ikʰˈtʰys], "fish") is (in its modern rendition) a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.
The Eucharist, the Church's sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, is the way by which the sacrifice of Christ is made present, and in which he unites us to his one offering of himself. The Holy Eucharist is called the Lord's Supper, and Holy Communion; it is also known as the Divine Liturgy, the Mass, and the Great Offering.
The rarest reported types of Eucharistic miracle is where the Eucharist becomes human flesh as in the miracle of Lanciano which some believe occurred at Lanciano, Italy, in the 8th century, [23] [24] or the Eucharist becomes human blood as in the miracle of Santarém which some believe occurred at Santarém, Portugal, in the 13th century. [25]
The practice of allowing young children to receive communion has fallen into disfavor in the Latin-Rite of the Catholic Church. Latin-Rite Catholics generally refrain from infant communion and instead have a special ceremony when the child receives his or her First Communion, usually around the age of seven or eight years old.