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  • Without conscious thought I stepped behind the altar, raised my arms, and began the celebration of the Eucharist.†  (source)
  • And this is the altar, where the priest performs the Eucharist.†  (source)
  • I had died without having taken the Eucharist, and I was cursed.†  (source)
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  • For this very reason, from this point on in the Mass, my fingers and thumb would be kept pinched together until washed after the Sacrament of the Eucharist.†  (source)
    Eucharist = sharing of bread and wine to remember Jesus' death (also called Holy Communion)
  • Together we were insufferable, pontifical, self-righteous voices of the Eucharist, pipelines to the Almighty.†  (source)
  • The duties of the priest towards the Eucharist and towards the secrecy of the confessional seemed so grave to me that I wondered how anybody had ever found in himself the courage to undertake them; and I was not surprised when he told me that the fathers of the Church had written books as thick as the Post Office Directory and as closely printed as the law notices in the newspaper, elucidating all these intricate questions.†  (source)
  • Why was the sacrament of the eucharist instituted under the two species of bread and wine if Jesus Christ be present body and blood, soul and divinity, in the bread alone and in the wine alone?†  (source)
  • I shouldn't brood about such a silly business as the annual installation of parish officers; especially, I shouldn't allow such thoughts to distract me from the choral Eucharist and the sermon.†  (source)
  • I had seen evil, and so I carried the evil within me, and the holy sacraments of confession and the holy eucharist were far away.†  (source)
  • But I looked forward to even the humblest act—sweeping the vestibule, or rinsing the vessels from the Eucharist in the sacrarium so that no drop of Precious Blood wound up in the Concord sewers.†  (source)
  • His actual reception of the eucharist did not bring him the same dissolving moments of virginal self-surrender as did those spiritual communions made by him sometimes at the close of some visit to the Blessed Sacrament.†  (source)
  • And when Canon Mackie proceeded with the Holy Eucharist, to the Thanksgiving and Consecration, which he sang, I even judged him unfairly for his singing voice, which is not and never will be the equal of Canon Campbell's—God Rest His Soul.†  (source)
  • But that was before I learned that the requirements of a true believer included Mass every Sunday and holy day of obligation, receiving the Eucharist, reconciliation once a year, giving money to the poor, observing Lent.†  (source)
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