Eucharist

Abanto 1 Pons Abanto Professor Clemens Reinke PHR-121 21 April 2017 Research Paper Distinction between Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianity With over 2 billion followers around the globe, Christianity is the world’s largest religion and encompasses nearly a third of the earth’s total population. However, Christianity is further broken down into numerous denominations that maintain their own distinct ways of practicing their Christian faith. The main branches of Christianity…

The novel A Father who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture by Scott Hahn highlights the significant events in Scripture. Hahn starts with a story of a father in Armenia digging through the rubble of a collapsed school to save his son. When his son is found alive, he states that his father would never forget him. God is similar to the father, as he always saved humans from destruction and kept his promises. Hahn reveals that in Genesis 1 God created the world in six days, and the…

Christianity pulled away from Judaism and became its own religion after the crucifixion of Jesus from Nazareth. Even though Christianity originated from Judaism there are striking differences that sets the two religions apart. Christianity and Judaism both originated in Israel and are monotheistic religions. In Judaism, the concept of divine states that there is only one Being in the universe. There is no human being equivalent to one Being because it is incomparable. The nature of God is…

the new covenant in my Blood, shed for you.” At this eucharistic meal, Jesus celebrated the first mass. At every mass the sacrifice of Calvary is made present. At the Last Supper Jesus instituted these sacraments to perpetuate this sacrifice. The Eucharist is a sacrifice as it is offered up, and a sacrament as it is received. In mass we offer ourselves to God and God gives himself to…

Historical context. Eastern Orthodoxy was formed in the 1st-5th centuries BC. Eastern Orthodoxy developed its identity after the “Great Schism” in which Rome and Constantinople had a falling out and both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism gained an identity (“Eastern Orthodoxy”). The religion originated in the East from the Roman-Byzantine Empire with the headquarters in Constantinople. Eastern Orthodoxy regards its self as the True Church, being rooted in Christianity. Eastern Orthodoxy…

Mother of God in the chapel, seated near the altar. During that moment, she had the sweetest time of her life. The Blessed Virgin told her on matters of behavior towards others and her spiritual director and impressed upon her the necessity of the Eucharist as a source of grace by pointing to the Tabernacle and…

Interpretation in Cultural Context As the authenticity of the prayer has been established and a likely original version produced, we transition to the reception of the Lord’s Prayer as taught by the Great Teacher to his audience in the first century. Tertullian believes the Lord’s Prayer to be a summary of Jesus’ faith and moral teachings, or an “abridgement of the entire Gospel” (Luz 325). The new covenant brings about the need for a new form of prayer, one in which God’s created beings can…

emeralds and very large pearls. In the back of her head, just like in Justinian Mosacis is a halo, which speaks to the divine origin of her authority. In addition, similar to Justinian, who’s carrying the large bowl for the Eucharist bread, Theodora is carrying a large jar for the Eucharist wine. She is surrounded by her attendants symbolizing the imperial court; one of them has beckoned her to pass through the curtain doorway to enter the emperor’s procession. Some of the figures are created…

Women-owned ‘houses churches' that were often gathered by early Christians to worship. The early Christian communities met in the women's houses because there were no churches yet. The act of providing the venue for the congregation for worshiping is viewed as a role. The main purpose of women was not to be married but if married they were to lead lives of abstinence and sexual renunciation and in that they will be fulfilling the will of God (Paul, 2015). Women also seemed to be part of…

She was canonized on June 29th 1461, by Pope Pius the 2nd. Her mother had at least 25 children, of which she was the 25th (her mother was 40 when she was born). She was born into a middle-class family in Siena, Italy. She had visions of God throughout her life, and her first vision was Christ sitting on a throne when she was 5 or 6. She decided to devote her life to god when she was 7. When she was 16, her sister, Bonaventura, died, and her parents tried to have Catherine marry Bonaventura’s…