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    This understanding of the Eucharist followed the understanding of transubstantiation. Transubstantiation teaches that while the visible qualities of the bread and the wine (also called the accidents) do not change after consecration, the “inner being” (called the substance) of the bread and the wine is transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ. In the ten articles published there were five articles that were pertinent to doctrine, and five pertinent to the ceremony. The article relating to the presence in the Eucharist follows the same belief system as that of the Roman Catholics, being that the actual blood and body of Christ are present within the Eucharistic matter upon consecration. The ten articles heartily reflect the Roman Catholic belief system to which King Henry VII was accustomed. However, shortly after…

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    The original pragmatic maxim and the whole creation of pragmatism derive their origins from Charles Pierce, the creator of pragmatism and its principle. The pragmatic principle that Pierce develops can be put forth from his essay, “How To Make Our Ideas Clear”, that “our idea of anything is our idea of its sensible effects.” (56) According to Pierce, pragmatism says our understanding or meanings of objects and beliefs formulate because of the qualities and characteristics that the objects and…

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    Eucharist Poster Analysis

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    wore white garments to signify their union with Christ. The priest wears the white garment during Mass, and throughout the blessing of the Eucharist, to signify his union with Christ. While he is blessing the Eucharist, the Priest is demonstrating to us, how Jesus, at the Last Supper, blessed the bread and wine. While blessing the bread and wine, the Priest becomes Jesus as he says the words, “Take and eat it, this is my body.” The priest will then take a cup, give thanks to God and say, “Drink…

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    Transubstantiation is the idea that Christ’s body is present in the bread and wine during the sacrament of the Eucharist. It is something that was practiced in early Christian churches, and it continues to be practiced today. Martin Luther and the Council of Trent hold opposing positions on the subject of transubstantiation, which overlap in a way that can be compared. Martin Luther believed transubstantiation was an unnecessary step in the consecration of the bread and wine during mass. The…

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    1. Transubstantiation Transubstantiation is the Catholic belief that during the Eucharist in Mass, the bread and wine is transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ (Lindberg (L.) 402). This is significant, because during the Reformation in the 16th century, Luther developed the idea of “sola scriptura” or scripture alone (Harris Lecture (H.L.10/14/14). This concept meant that since it did not actually say in the scripture that the bread and body of Christ had been transformed, it…

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    Communion Or Eucharist?

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    drinking blood of Jesus, in its accidental form of bread and wine due to transubstantiation, when they celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion. Justin the Martyr was a Samaritan born in a Roman colony in Palestine. All throughout his childhood he was looking for the meaning of life. He was convicted of the truth of the scripture and he saw the Christian faith as the fulfillment of philosophy. This theme is seen in his writing, where he truly defends the word of…

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    Council Of Trent Analysis

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    Protestant movement, saying that Jesus was not physically present during this practice. Rather, he believed this practice was simply a memorial at church. The council refused this idea and wanted to affirm this sacraments again evidence in the creed “I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially, the Body and Blood,…

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    In about 1964 Pope Urban IV requested St. Thomas Aquinas to write hymns for the Feast of Corpus Christi. One out of the five hymns that St. Thomas Aquinas wrote for this feast was Lauda, Sion, Salvatorem. This hymn is divided into two parts, one part which refers to the Old Testament and one part which refers to the New Testament. This hymn is still used today and expresses what we as Catholics believe regarding transubstantiation. Starting in the fourth stanza of Lauda, Sion, Salvatorem,…

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    The sacrament of the body and blood of Christ – Against the Fanatics is a text written by the religious reformer Martin Luther. Published in 1526, at a time when there was a rise in the idea of ‘True Christianity’. Against the Fanatics is about an issue at the heart of all Christian worship, the highly contested issue of Christ’s place in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is a sacrament in which Catholics teach that bread and wine transform into the body and blood of Christ. This is known as…

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    One example of this would be the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church believes that before taking communion one must be in a state of grace and has been to confession so that you are not aware of a sin you have committed immediately prior to taking communion. The Catholic Church states that you must believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation “According to transubstantiation, the bread and wine are actually transformed into the actual body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ, with only the…

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