THE EUCHARIST
The Last Sacrament of Initiation
The Institution of the Eucharist
and Christ as the Bread from
Heaven
pp. 74-79
KEY
IDEAS
The Eucharist as the
fulfillment of the
Old Testament
Christ gave a new meaning to the Passover meal
Christ as the Bread of Life
Focus Questions pp.74
1. What did the early Church mean by the
term, the “Breaking of the Bread”?
2. What is the last of the Sacraments of
Christian Initiation?
3. How is the Eucharist different from the
other sacraments?
The Institution of the Eucharist
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3a. What is the Passover?
4. How did Jesus break with custom during
his last Passover meal?
5. What is the “Blood of the Covenant”, and
what did Jesus’ words imply?
Blood of the Covenant
Cup of the New Covenant
Covenant between
God and Israel
… poured out for many for
the forgiveness of sin
Victim: lamb
Victim: Jesus
Sacrifice
Seder table set (arrangement)
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6. What part of the Passover meal did Jesus
omit at the Last Supper?
7. How did Jesus refer to the cup of
consummation as he prayed in the Garden
of Gethsemane?
8. How did Jesus refer to the cup of
consummation when St. Peter fought
against Jesus’ arrest by cutting off the ear
of the high priest’s slave?
Mk 14:25
Lk 22:42
Jn 18;11
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9. How did Jesus request the “cup of
consummation” on the Cross?
10. How did the soldiers’ action relate back
to the Passover?
11. What time of day did Pilate order Jesus
crucified, and what is significant about that
time?
Jn 19:28
Ex 12:22
The Promise of the Eucharist:
The Bread from Heaven Discourse
p78-79
• 12. How did God feed the Israelites when
they wandered in the desert for forty
years?
13. How did Jesus feed the vast crowds
which came to hear him?
14. How did Jesus compare himself to the
manna?
15. What further claims about himself did
Jesus make as recorded in John 6:51?
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The Bread from Heaven Discourse
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16. How did the crowds react to this?
17. How did Jesus’ listeners understand
Jesus’ words in John 6: 53-58, and how
did the word “eat” reinforce this
understanding?
18. What did Jesus “Bread from Heaven”
discourse do to his popularity?
19. Why did the Apostles not leave Jesus
over this teachings?
Summary pp. 75-79
Institution of the Eucharist
Two things Jesus did different during the Passover meal
Summary pp. 75-79
Institution of the Eucharist
Two things Jesus did different during the Passover meal
1- Took bread; blessed; broke it; gave it to his disciples
Jesus said: “Take and eat – this is my body.
Drink of it – this is my blood of the covenant”
Summary pp. 75-79
Institution of the Eucharist
Two things Jesus did different during the Passover meal
1- Took bread; blessed; broke it; gave it to his disciples
Jesus said: “Take and eat – this is my body.
Drink of it – this is my blood of the covenant”
Summary pp. 75-79
Institution of the Eucharist
Two things Jesus did different during the Passover meal
1- Took bread; blessed; broke it; gave it to his disciples
Jesus said: “Take and eat – this is my body.
Drink of it – this is my blood of the covenant”
2- Jesus dismissed the most important part of the meal,
the “cup of consummation.”
Summary pp. 75-79
Institution of the Eucharist
The cup of consummation will be His own Death on the Cross
THE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW COVENANT
NT
I thirst
It is finished
Sponge sour wine on a
branch of hyssop
Same used for sprinkling
OT the blood of the Passover
lamb
Institution of the Eucharist
NT: Pilate ordered the
Crucifixion on the Day of
Preparation at the sixth hour
OT: The sixth hour is the very hour that the
Passover lambs were sacrificed
Institution of the Eucharist
NT: Pilate ordered the
Crucifixion on the Day of
Preparation at the sixth hour
OT: The sixth hour is the very hour that the
Passover lambs were sacrificed
Jesus chooses to institute the Eucharist
In the context of the Passover meal
Institution of the Eucharist
NT: Pilate ordered the
Crucifixion on the Day of
Preparation at the sixth hour
OT: The sixth hour is the very hour that the
Passover lambs were sacrificed
Jesus chooses to institute the Eucharist
In the context of the Passover meal
He links the
Passover meal
OT
His Death on the Cross
NT
Jesus Christ is the Lamb that
Takes away the sins of the world
Bread from Heaven
(John)
Bread from Heaven
(John)
OT: Ancestors had been sustained
in the desert by the manna from
Heaven
NT: Jesus offers his Body and Blood
for the nourishment of the soul
Bread from Heaven
(John)
OT: Ancestors had been sustained
in the desert by the manna from
Heaven
They died
NT: Jesus offers his Body and Blood
for the nourishment of the soul
Food for everlasting life
Bread from Heaven
(John)
OT: Ancestors had been sustained
in the desert by the manna from
Heaven
They died
NT: Jesus offers his Body and Blood
for the nourishment of the soul
Food for everlasting life
Two essential and interrelated teachings of the Eucharist
Bread from Heaven
(John)
OT: Ancestors had been sustained
in the desert by the manna from
Heaven
They died
NT: Jesus offers his Body and Blood
for the nourishment of the soul
Food for everlasting life
Two essential and interrelated teachings of the Eucharist
1- The Eucharist is a
Spiritual food
Bread from Heaven
(John)
OT: Ancestors had been sustained
in the desert by the manna from
Heaven
They died
NT: Jesus offers his Body and Blood
for the nourishment of the soul
Food for everlasting life
Two essential and interrelated teachings of the Eucharist
1- The Eucharist is a
Spiritual food
2- The Eucharist is truly the Body
And Blood of Our Lord, Jesus Christ