The Eucharist and the Gospels

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How were you received in the Catholic church? Did you study with the RCIA person or meet with a priest? You said you have been Catholic since August of 2018 so I take it you did not go through RCIA.
 
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Usually going through R C I A one enters the church at Easter.
 
Yes I did do RICA. I realize RCIA usually results in an Easter season confirmation, but my Cluster did it a bit off the normal schedule. Nobody wanted to wait until Easter 2019 to be confirmed so we went all summer with the classes and got confirmed in August.
 
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I got a ticket to Chrism Mass for this year and went to this year’s Neophyte Mass as well though. Just went to both of them recently.
 
I just attended my first Chrism Mass
this year also. I really was impressed and inspired by the Chrism Mass.

Almost 11 years have passed since I
was received into the Catholic Church. @J_Ignatius
I was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal church. I became Catholic
at the age of 56.
 
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BartholomewB said:
“Source and summit” strikes me as something of an overstatement.
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That phrase comes directly from the English-language version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which quotes the Second Vatican Council:
1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” [Lumen Gentium 11] “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.” [Presbyterorum Ordinis 5]
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In the English version on the Vatican website, “source and summit of Christian life” is rendered “fount and apex of the whole Christian life”. The Latin has “totius vitae christianae fontem et culmen”.
 
I’ve been on discussion forums before, but I’ve never gotten such awesome replies to questions as I have here. You’ve all helped me to understand and appreciate the Eucharist more. I tried contacting the pastor of my cluster to talk about it (in Maine we have clusters consisting of 2 or 3 parishes because of the shortage of people entering into Holy Orders, one pastor is in charge of 2 or 3 parishes), but unfortunately he is not very responsive. He is retiring next year and he is sort of aloof. I’m hoping his successor is more accessible. I was a member of the First Baptist Church for 35 years before God called me to the Church, so as you all probably know, I had a very different view of the Eucharist, or communion as we called it, because most protestant churches believe communion is not a sacrament, but an ordinance. The Baptist church I went to only did communion one every 3 months and they used grape juice instead of wine, and I’m not even sure if the pastor consecrated anything at all (unless he did it beforehand in private or something). The pastor we had acted as though going through the communion rite was a nuisance. He didn’t seem to like doing it. He would rather spend that time yelling at us and telling us about hellfire and brimstone. LOL God Bless everyone! Peace!
 
If you want to check out what I wrote just now in another thread, it goes beyond the Catechism for deeper understanding of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. It’s not a complete explanation from the information I obtained from various theologians, but if anything, it should help you understand that the Eucharist was prepared for us since Genesis.
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Still not understanding how the Mass is a sacrifice. Please help me understand Liturgy and Sacraments
But it is not complete. Jesus performed the ritual up to the point where the Sacrificial Lamb needs to be eaten. What is finished is His part in the sacrifice. To show that Jesus is the Lamb of God, key text need to be understood through typology. As I mentioned the hyssop branch, in Exodus 12:22, a hyssop branch is used to spread the blood of the lamb on the doorposts. It is also instructed by God that the lamb shall be unblemished with no broken bones in Exodus 12:46, and John will point …
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When there was the mention of the Tree of Life, God made it so the Tree of Life would be our salvation, and Jesus on the Cross is our Tree of Life.

I also should say that the Catechism is really good for helping you understand these things. I would even suggest picking up the Didache Bible, which uses the Catechism in its footnotes for explanation.
 
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