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Catholic AnswerThe Eucharist is the re-presentation of Our Blessed Lord's death and passion on the cross, and the sharing of His Most Precious Body and Blood in Holy Communion with the faithful. The word "Eucharist" refers specially to the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, really and substantially present under the appearances of bread and wine. It is called Eucharist (Thanksgiving) because at its institution at the Last Supper Christ "gave thanks". The word refers to these great gift in any or all of three aspects of the one mystery: the Real Presence, the Sacrifice, and Holy Communion.

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from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

1324 The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life." (Lumen Gentium 11)" The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch." (Presbyterorum ordinis)

1325 "the Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit." (Congregation of Rites, instruction, Eucharisticum mysterium, 6)

1326 Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all. (Cf. 1 Cor 15:28)

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