FOF Ch 21, The Sacrament of the Eurcharist study questions
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  1. The strongest Biblical evidence for any of the seven Sacraments is for which Sacrament?


  1. Who are the five Evangelists, who wrote explicitly on the Holy Eurcharist?
    (hint: the writers of the New Testament)



  1. What was Jesus' first miracle when he had the occasion of presenting the Real Presence of the Holy Eucharist?


  1. To indicate its superior nature, Jesus contrasted the Holy Eucharist with what?


  1. What was the consequence that Jesus spoke of, of not eating his flesh and drinking his blood?


  1. What were some of the reactions by the people to Jesus speaking of eating his flesh and drinking his blood?


  1. What would Jesus do if people misunderstood his message?


  1. Which writers of the New Testament give us the precise words with which Jesus instituted the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist?


  1. Read on page 252, paragraph 3, all the questions that can be used to support the changing of the bread and wine into flesh and blood. Which one touched you the most?


  1. What did St. Paul write about 18 years after Matthew wrote his Gospel regarding the bread and wine?


  1. Cardinal Gibbons finds how many of the Fathers of the Church from the first to the sixth centuries, all of whom taught that the Eucharist was a real sacrifice of the body and blood of Jesus himself?


  1. Cardinal Gibbons cites six Church Fathers who taught the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Name them.





Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX