The Eucharist

Every Sunday the faith community gathers to celebrate the Eucharist also known as Mass. This is the occasion on which the Christian people draw their identity. No other occasion can replace the Sunday Mass. From the earliest times the Christian community has gathered on Sunday to celebrate Christ's resurrection and our coming into union with him as individuals and as the community called his body.

On this D of the Lord, Christ's faithful come together to hear the Word of God and to take part in the Eucharist. Here the death and resurrection of Christ are made present to us through the real presence of Christ. We enter this event and mystery, and we become what we receive - the body of Christ.

“It is the community of Pentecost that is able to break the Bread in the certain knowledge that the Lord is alive, risen from the dead, present with his word, with his gestures, with the offering of His Body and His Blood. From that moment on the celebration became the privileged place — though not the only one — of an encounter with Him. We know that only thanks to the grace of this encounter does a human being become fully human. Only the Church of Pentecost can conceive of the human being as a person, open to a full relationship with God, with creation, and with one’s brothers and sisters.”        #12 DESIDERIO DESIDERAVI