It should be noted that in the ritual of sacramentality bread and water are blessed by the priests. ... The molecules are not changed but God is asked to give it a special status and this change is realized or seen according to the belief, faith and spiritual level of each individual in the community. ... The breakfast bread does not have these qualities even if our thoughts are with Christ while eating the morning repast. The sacramental rite has to be there to make these emblems holy – to be something other than what the ordinary eyes of the flesh see.6 The bread and water represent th...

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The idea of the Eucharist is derived from the Last Supper where Jesus turned his body into bread and his blood into wine. ... The Eastern part of the church offers all of the initiation sacraments to babies, but the Western Church usually gives Baptism as an infant and Eucharist and Confirmation in middle childhood. ...

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He can be a marriage councilor, give you advice and if somebody sick in your family you can go to him and ask him to pray for that person so you get better. Now that mass has officially started he starts to lecture and when he mentions certain things the people give a response, like a chant. ... During communion you go up to the priest and he puts a piece of bread in your mouths and this represents gods body and the you chase it down with some wine, which represents his blood. After you have taken communion you go back to your seat and give a prayer in silence on you knees. ...

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With the meagre income, Mary's diet was usually that of bread and treacle. ... She was fearless to the bishops' onslaught continuing her work in NSW. 1/6 of children in NSW primary schools were taught by the Josephites, signifying Mary's strength, influential power and her ongoing faith in her ideals and vows of maintaining human dignity and giving hope to the poor. ...

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Beyond this, nobody has authority to give morals or dogma because the time of Prophets is over, we are told by God in the Bible. ... Catholics believe the bread and wine in the Eucharist miraculously and mysteriously changed into the Body and Blood of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. ...

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