It is not the Eucharist but Jesus Christ that is 'so central in our lives.'
The Eucharist gives one the "food of eternal life." The Eucharist also allows us to receive the Lord and shows us that we are committed to Him. The Eucharist also is the initiation into Christ's body and blood which was shed for us. Therefore Eucharist is a sacrament of Initiation.
Most Quakers do not consider that observing such sacraments aids the living of a spiritual life.
The Most Holy Eucharist did not develop from Jewish tradition, it was given to us, whole and entire by Our Blessed Savior, Jesus Christ, at the Last Supper. However, it was prefigured in the Old Testament in many ways: for instance, the tree of Life in the garden of Eden which gives eternal life prefigures the Eucharist. The Passover lamb prefigures the Eucharist. The bread and wine offered by the priest, Melchizedek (King of Salem) prefigures the Eucharist. The blood of the covenant (Exodus 24:8) The manna in the desert prefigures the Eucharist. The showbread or Bread of the Presence, which was to be before the Arc of the Covenant always, prefigures the Eucharist.
The Holy Eucharist.
the importance of the Eucharist is indefinite! You need jesus in your life, and the Eucharist is Jesus, so the average Catholic should receive the Eucharist as many time as he can in a week. he should go to daily mass, and pray and think about Jesus, the most Holy Trinity, and Our blessed Mother as often as he or she can, and offer our lives to them.
The Eucharist is the central worship of Catholicism.
For me,it is the source and summit of all Christian life. In the Eucharist, the sanctifying action of God in our regard and our worship of him reach their high point. It contains the whole spiritual good of the Church, Christ himself. Communion with divine life and the unity of the People of God are both expressed and effected by the Eucharist. Through the eucharistic celebration we are united already with the liturgy of heaven and we have a foretaste of eternal life.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to the Eucharist celebrated in Mass as the "source and summit of the Christian life" (1324).
Passover is a Jewish observance. Catholics consider the Eucharist as the center of Christian life.
Jesus made it because it is the source and summit of all Christian life. In the Eucharist, the sanctifying action of God in our regard and our worship of him reach their high point. It contains the whole spiritual good of the Church, Christ himself, our Pasch. Communion with divine life and the unity of the People of God are both expressed and effected by the Eucharist. Through the Eucharistic celebration we are united already with the liturgy of heaven and we have a foretaste of eternal life.
The bread is the host of the Eucharist.