eucharist
IPA: jˈukɝʌst
Root Word: Eucharist
noun
- (Christianity) The Christian sacrament of Holy Communion.
- (by extension) A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
- The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
- Alternative letter-case form of Eucharist [(Christianity) The Christian sacrament of Holy Communion.]
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Examples of "eucharist" in Sentences
- The preparation of the Eucharist.
- The Eucharist is ritual cannibalism.
- The Eucharist heals the rational soul.
- He developed the symbolic view of the Eucharist.
- It is dedicated to the adoration of the Eucharist.
- The eucharist was desecrated, and furniture damaged.
- The document expounded on the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- In the Reformed Churches, the Eucharist is variously administered.
- One of the ends for which the Eucharist is offered is for reparation.
- Offertories are sung during the offering of Eucharistic bread and wine.
- The sacrament of the eucharist is a symbol of _all_ our religion; -- it is the life of man.
- Of course - just to clarify, I do believe in transubstantiation, and that the eucharist is not symbolic.
- Augustine certainly did not teach that the sacrifice of the eucharist was the same as the sacrifice of Calvary.
- Much of the doctrine and duty of the eucharist is illustrated to us by the law of the passover (Exod. xii.); for the
- The word eucharist is the Greek word meaning "thanksgiving" which is used as a title for either the liturgy of the Mass or for the Communion elements themselves.
- The day and time in which he had this vision: it was the Lord's day, the day which Christ had separated and set apart for himself, as the eucharist is called the Lord's supper.
- Humility, self-restraint, asceticism, patience, solitude, love of Jesus, prayer, and a diligent use of the sacramental grace of the eucharist are the means recommended to form the character of the perfect Christian.
- They abstain from the eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not that the eucharist is the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.
- Christ's constant bodily presence was not to be expected here in this world; it was expedient that he should go away; his real presence in the eucharist is a fond and groundless conceit, and contradicts what he here said, Me ye have not always.
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