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
Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 for inciting serious contempt of Muslims, each were fined $2,000. Former state shadow Attorney general Andrew McIntosh announced prior to the 2006 election that the Liberal Party would repeal the religious section of the "fundamentally flawed" Act. In January 2006, nineteen Christian leaders from Melbourne's largest churches wrote to the Premier requesting the removal of the civil provisions in the act, claiming that aspects of the religious vilification law undermines multiculturalism. Independent MP Russell Savage, whose support helped Bracks form Government in 1999, described the act as "the worst legislation he had ever seen passed". Racial and Religious Tolerance Act