| A | B |
| Eucharist | Thanksgiving |
| Passover | Jewish feast commemorating the protection of God by the passing over of the angel of death |
| Anamnesis | Greek word for memory |
| unleavened bread | Bread without yeast, that does not rise |
| Mass | taken from the Latin word Missa for dismissal |
| Communion | To be in union with God and others, another name for Eucharist |
| Assembly | The community of believers, all the Baptized |
| Liturgy of the Eucharist | The second part of Mass, includes the ritual of the consecration of the bread and wine to become the body and blood of Jesus |
| Transubstantiation | The word used to describe the changing of the Bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus |
| Ministry | from the Latin word that means service |
| epeclesis | When the priest calls upon the Holy Spirit to come upon the gifts that they may become the Body and Blood of Jesus |
| Consecration | the action of declaring the bread and wine to be the Body and Blood of Christ |
| Institution Narrative | the time in the Eucharistic Prayer that records the Eucharist as instituted by Jesus on the night before he died |
| Passover Seder | The Jewish ritual meal Jesus shared with his closest friends the night before he died |
| Consecration | The essential action in the mass that only an ordained priest can perform |