Eucharist in the Catholic Church Eucharist in the Catholic Church The Eucharist in the Catholic Church is celebrated as "the source and summit" of the Christian life. The Eucharist is consecrated daily (except on Good Friday, when consecration takes place on Maundy Thursday, but is distributed during the Mass of the Presanctified) during the celebration of Mass, the eucharistic liturgy. The term "Eucharist" is also used for the bread and wine when transubstantiated (their substance having been changed), according to Catholic teaching, into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the Eucharistic
Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture up with early Jewish-Christian polemics. Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture This brief article distinguishes the various terms used to describe (Jew)ish and (Christian)ity scripture. Several terms refer to the same material, although sometimes rearranged. For Jews, the Bible means... Judaism has traditionally held that, along with the Torah, God revealed a series of instructions on how to interpret and apply the Torah. The Torah is referred to as the "written law", while the additional instructions were known as the "Oral law". By the second century CE Jewish sages began writing down interpretations of the Bible; Orthodox Jews consider these