Even the humblest meal could be a eucharist, with the cook serving both as its priest and, through loving sacrifice of time and effort, its victim too.
His sect, the Alawites, is the product of interweaving religions, celebrating the eucharist by drinking the body and blood not of Jesus, but of Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law.
In Dublin, "permanent deacons" (many of them married) have been ordained, with the authority to perform most rites except the Eucharist.
If the Mamelukes, an oddly tolerant medieval Egyptian dynasty, let monks celebrate the eucharist in its original setting seven centuries ago, say their Franciscan contemporaries, the Israelis should let them do the same.The struggle over religious rites on Mount Zion is turning a once sleepy annex of Jerusalem's Old City walls into one of its most contested holy sites.
Bread and wine invoked the Eucharist.
The child, who had been a baptized member of the church, became, in effect, an adult, assuming personal responsibility and the privilege of participating in the Eucharist.
Under a variety of titles (Eucharist from the Greek eucharistia, "thanksgiving"; the Latin mass; the Holy Communion; the Lord's Supper; and the breaking of the bread) it has been the central act of worship ever since the night of the betrayal of Jesus on the Thursday preceding his crucifixion.
Chasuble, liturgical vestment, the outermost garment worn by Roman Catholic priests and bishops at mass and by some Anglicans and Lutherans when they celebrate the Eucharist.
Humbert joined in a wide-ranging dispute over the nature of the eucharist and in 1050 castigated the reform doctrine of Berengar of Tours.
The bull anathematized (condemned) Michael Cerularius, the Greek doctrine of the Holy Spirit, the marriage of Greek priests, and the Greek use of leavened bread for the Eucharist.
Luther and Zwingli had met at Marburg in 1529 in an attempt to iron out differences, but they could not agree on the question of Christ's real presence in the Eucharist.
