Eucharist or The Eucharist

[scylla]

It seems quite common to hear among the women priests crowd\homosexual agenda people a description of the Eucharist as Eucharist, stressing the meaning of the word as Thanksgiving over the Real Presence of Christ.

Why is this? I understand that the word Eucharist does mean thanksgiving but am I wrong in being irked when I hear a lecture about the Mass and I continually hear phrases such as, “when we gather for Eucharist, we become the Body of Christ”

I understand how this can be understood in a Catholic sense, but I believe the understanding behind the dissident expression is meant to mislead people and give them a sense that we become Christ and God is centered in each other, rather than we receive Christ and we need to see Christ in each person.

Am I wrong?
God Bless
Scylla

 

[rpp]

It seems quite common to hear among the women priests crowd\homosexual agenda people a description of the Eucharist as Eucharist, stressing the meaning of the word as Thanksgiving over the Real Presence of Christ.

Why is this? I understand that the word Eucharist does mean thanksgiving but am I wrong in being irked when I hear a lecture about the Mass and I continually hear phrases such as, “when we gather for Eucharist, we become the Body of Christ”

I understand how this can be understood in a Catholic sense, but I believe the understanding behind the dissident expression is meant to mislead people and give them a sense that we become Christ and God is centered in each other, rather than we receive Christ and we need to see Christ in each person.

Am I wrong?
God Bless
Scylla

As I do not hang around with apostates, I have not heard this expression. Right off the bat, I say it sounds grammatically awkward and incorrect.

When people go about trying to change the meaning of words, that is a sign of bad intent. I believe your analysis in the second paragraph may not be far off the mark. However, such people are NOT dissidents, they are apostates and possibly heretics. A dissident is someone who wants to change Church discipline, like having a married priesthood for Latin Rite priests. An apostate or heretic goes against Church doctrine, such as promoting the idea of ordaining priestesses or using “gender neutral” expressions for One or All the Persons of the Trinity.