Is the Eucharist In the Bible? - Eucharist 101 - A Journey Through the Sacrament

Already on day two, it's time for the make-or-break question—possibly the greatest dispute between Catholics and all other Christians for the past 500+ years: Is the Eucharist Biblical? Or a false teaching that has been handed down and persists within the Catholic Church?

In today's video, we'll make the case that Biblical figures prior to Jesus, as well as Jesus himself and his Apostles, very clearly point towards the Eucharist as being the "Source and summit of the Christian life." (CCC, 1324)

Starting with the Old Testament, we'll explore how God revealed through the prophets that the Eucharist would become a soul-saving Sacrament and how different traditions within the Jewish faith prefigured how Catholics celebrate and understand the Eucharist today.

Moving into the New Testament, you'll hear the words of Jesus in the four Gospels—perhaps in a new way—as well as those of St. Paul as they both explicitly talk about the Eucharist and the various duties we have as a result of being given the Sacrament. 

“They set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!" Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread." — Luke 24:33-35

“For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."  — 1 Corinthians 11:23-25

“The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist..." — CCC, 1335

The Eucharist IS Biblical and as we'll discover in episode 4, some of the earliest writings we have from the first Christians, outside of the Gospels, have to do with Mass and the Eucharist. 

If you watch this video and realize you've heard other people give rebuttals or alternate interpretations of these passages, we hope you hear them in a different way today. But if not, please hold out a little longer! On day 5 we'll go into more detail and answer some of the more common rebuttals to these verses on the Eucharist, as well as tackle other common questions and challenges from our culture in regards to the Sacrament.

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