THEO3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: First Communion, Protestantism, Early Christianity
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Missa = latin for dismissal = mass: can be used interchangeably in society (colloquial word, eucharist each sunday. The mass is the name commonly given to the ritual celebration of the eucharist. The words mass and eucharist can be used interchangeably. The mass is the word most catholics/people/students are familiar with. In theological language and in church documents eucharist is the word used: eucharist is the correct theological word. It should not be used to describe just any catholic or protestant service. The sacrament of the eucharist is just not first communion: sacraments of initiation (b, c and e) not just about first communion, about the sacrament of the eucharist. The word eucharist is also used to describe the consecrated bread and wine: the body & blood of christ. The word eucharist refers to the whole ritual. Those who have been raised to the dignity of a christian by baptism and configured more deeply to christ by.
