Life of Christ #11: Institution of the Holy Eucharist

Lesson

Institution of the Eucharist by Michael VENOT

INTROIT Ps. 80:17 (From Feast of Corpus Christi)

He fed them with the finest wheat, alleluia! and filled them with honey from the rock, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Ps. 80:2. Sing joyfully to God, our helper, sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

V. Glory be . . .

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Can.  897 The most August sacrament is the Most Holy Eucharist in which Christ the Lord himself is contained, offered, and received and by which the Church continually lives and grows. The eucharistic sacrifice, the memorial of the death and resurrection of the Lord, in which the sacrifice of the cross is perpetuated through the ages is the summit and source of all worship and Christian life, which signifies and effects the unity of the People of God and brings about the building up of the body of Christ. Indeed, the other sacraments and all the ecclesiastical works of the apostolate are closely connected with the Most Holy Eucharist and ordered to it.

<> Can.  898 The Christian faithful are to hold the Most Holy Eucharist in highest honor, taking an active part in the celebration of the most august sacrifice, receiving this sacrament most devoutly and ...