THE

EUCHARIST

Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion

LAWRENCE FEINGOLD

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© 2018 Lawrence Feingold

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Fifth Printing 2022

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Feingold, Lawrence, author.

Title: The Eucharist : mystery of presence, sacrifice, and communion / Lawrence Feingold.

Description: Steubenville : Emmaus Academic, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017037498 (print) | LCCN 2017039059 (ebook) | ISBN 9781945125744 (ebook) | ISBN 9781945125720 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781945125737 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Lord’s Supper--Catholic Church.

Classification: LCC BX2215.3 (ebook) | LCC BX2215.3 .F45 2017 (print) | DDC 234/.163--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017037498

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are taken from The Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition) Copyright © 2006 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, copyright © 2000, Libreria Editrice Vaticana—United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C. Noted as CCC in the text.

Imprimatur: In accordance with CIC 827, permission to publish has been granted on October 18, 2017, by the Most Reverend Mark S. Rivituso, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of St. Louis. Permission to publish is an indication that nothing contrary to Church teaching is contained in this work. It does not imply any endorsement of the opinions expressed in the publication; nor is any liability assumed by this permission.

Cover image: The Last Supper (1481–1482), Cosimo Rosselli, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Cover design by Margaret Ryland

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Structure of the Work

Part I: Foundations

Chapter One: Why Did Christ Institute the Eucharist?

Reasons of Fittingness for the Eucharist

Sacrament of Spiritual Nourishment

Sacrament of Charity

Presence

Sacrificial Love

Intimate Union

Three Ends of the Eucharist

Christ Instituted the Eucharist for the Same Reasons That He Became Man

1. Presence

Divine Condescension Wishing to Dwell with Us

Teaching Perfect Virtue

The Merit of Faith

2. Sacrifice

Expiatory Sacrifice of Atonement

Full Revelation of the Divine Love

3. Communion

Divinization of Man

The Eucharist Is the Principal Means of Divinization

Dignity of Man

The Eucharist Is the Nuptials of the Lamb with His Church

The Eucharist and the Giving of the Holy Spirit

Mary and the Eucharist

The Eucharist Was Instituted to Be the Summit of the Sacramental Economy

Uniqueness of the Eucharist Compared with the Other Sacraments

The Eucharist and the New Covenant

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About The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion

The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion explores the three ends of the Sacrament of Sacraments: God’s true presence, His redemptive sacrifice, and spiritual nourishment through communion with Him. In this follow-up to his groundbreaking work, Faith Comes From What Is Heard, Lawrence Feingold constructs a biblical vision of the Eucharist from its prefigurement in the Old Testament to its fulfillment in the New and presents the Eucharistic theology of the Church Fathers, St. Thomas Aquinas, and magisterial teaching from centuries past through today. The Eucharist is a masterful text, both challenging and spiritually rich, that comprehensively examines the unspeakable mystery that is the Eucharist.

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