Why is Eucharist the most important sacrament?

Answer 1

Catholic AnswerThe Eucharist, as the Catechism says, "is the source and summit of the Christian life." The Eucharist is Our Blessed Lord, Body and Soul, Humanity and Divinity, appearing under the forms of bread and wine. But it is actually Our Blessed Lord, just as if you were standing in front of Him two thousand years ago in a dusty street in Jerusalem - no difference. It is God, Incarnate, the Almighty, Our Lord Jesus Christ, physically present for you to adore, talk to, listen to, worship. The One who made you, made the world and everyone in it. The One who started everything and gives meaning to you, me, everything. Why is the Eucharist important? Because it is God, He came to earth to save YOU, and this is how He remains here on earth for YOU. Even if you were the only person in the world, He still would have come, suffered, and died for YOU. And He would still be there waiting in the tabernacle in the Church to speak with YOU.

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

1381 "That in this sacrament are the true Body of Christ and his true Blood is something that 'cannot be apprehended by the sense,' says St. Thomas, 'but only by faith, which relies on divine authority.' For this reason, in a commentary on Luke 22:19 ('This is my body which is given for you.'), St. Cyril says: 'Do not doubt whether this is true, but rather receive the words of the Savior in faith, for since he is the truth, he cannot lie.'" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III, 75, 1: cf Paul VI, Mysterium fidei18; St. Cyril of Alexandria, In Luc. 22, 19: J.P. Migne, ed, Patrologia Graeca {Paris, 1857-1866} 72, 912; cf. Paul VI, Mysterium fidei 18)

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1323 "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, The church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is give to us.'" (Sacrasanctum concilium 47)

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 5)

Answer 2

AnswerThe Eucharist is important because Jesus is present in it under the appearance of bread and wine.

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AnswerThe importance of the Eucharist is that it is a pledge of future glory because it fills us with every grace and heavenly blessing. It fortifies us for our pilgrimage in this life and makes us long for eternal life. It unites us already to Christ seated at the right hand of the Father, to the Church in heaven and to the Blessed Virgin and all the saints.

Answer 3

The Eucharist is VERY important! Why? Because it is Jesus' body. Jesus is present in the Eucharist under the appearances of bread and wine. Jesus knew it would be hard for humans to eat actual flesh and drink actual blood, thus he gave us them under these appearance's. The Eucharist is the same sacrifice that Jesus did when He died on the cross. However, it is a non-bloody sacrifice that all present offer to God.

Answer 4

The Eucharist is the source and the summit of the Catholic Church (Catechism of the Catholic Church). Catholic's believe, based off of much scripture, the most plain of which is John 6, that the Eucharist transforms through transubstantiation from ordinary bread and wine into Jesus's actual flesh and blood. So it's a very important.

Answer 5

.Roman Catholic AnswerThe Eucharist is the actual Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ. As that makes It God on earth, I think it would be pretty important. Beyond that the entire Church and our salvation are bound up in this Manifestation of Our Blessed Lord:

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)

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"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)

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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)