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able condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.

al supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion. (b) The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion. -- The Lord's Table. (a) The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed. (b) The sacrament itself.

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

The consecrated elements in the eucharist.

A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.

The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. [Written also patin, patine.]

-- Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubsta…

e head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.

holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.

those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

ly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.

n divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also Ubiquitist, Ubiquitary.

One who receives the eucharist in both kinds; esp., one of a body of Hussites who in the 15th century fought for the right to do this. Called also Calixtines.

The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

nleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.