UNIT OVERVIEW This unit focuses on the Catholic Eucharist with
reference to: -ways in which selected individuals and organisations
reach out to Australians on the fringe of society; -ways in which
the Eucharist challenges Catholics to reach out to others, with
reference to key rituals, symbols and prayers from the Mass; -ways
in which Jesus reached out to others during his ministry, with
reference to key passages; -and ways in which students can reach
out to those on the fringe in their everyday lives.
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The Eucharist The Eucharist has been transformed over time from
a simple meal of praise and thanksgiving in the Last Supper (Where
Jesus showed his disciples how to memorialise his actions into the
future) to a significant and symbolic, weekly celebrated Christian
(Catholics say mass) Ritual.
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The Eucharist The Last Supper was the final meal that Jesus
shared with his disciples before he was crucified. He said and did
symbolic things that have evolved from Early Christian Tradition.
Jesus acknowledged that when the disciples needed spiritual
support, they should come together and break bread in his
honour.
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When you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim my
name Christian denominations believe this symbolic action is
memorial and praise. The Catholic group believe that the bread
literally represents the body of Jesus, and the wine that
represents Jesus blood. This literal representation is called
TRANSUBSTANTIATION
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The Eucharist The transformation occurs when the Priest, during
Eucharist Prayer blesses and transforms the bread and wine into the
body and blood of Christ. Elevating the mundane, to the
spiritual.
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Jesus, friend of the outcast Complete the TB Resource: -Jesus,
friend of the outcast -Outcasts in Jesus Time
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On The Fringe Of Australian Society? What groups make up the
fringe of Australian Society? How does society respond or
acknowledge these individuals or groups? - Political Responses -
Religious/Faith Responses - Social Welfare Groups How do
individuals/groups respond to these needs ?
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On the Fringe Complete the Google Doc: On the Fringe
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What does it mean? Eucharist: Sacred: Memorial: Sacrifice:
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Key Terminology for Eucharist Readings taken from Old and New
Testament Vestments robes the Priest wears during Mass Candles burn
on the Altar during Mass Tabernacle place where consecrated hosts
(already blessed) are placed for storage Host unleavened wheaten
bread Transubstantiation the conversion of the bread and wine into
the body and blood of Jesus Christ Liturgy of the Word Readings,
Responsorial Psalm, Gospel, Homily Eucharist Also called the Mass,
the word means Thanksgiving Salvation the reason Jesus died on the
cross for Christians to be saved Chalice holds the wine
Paten/Ciborium - holds the hosts Passover the Old Testament, Jewish
event that Jesus and his disciples were celebrating with the Last
Supper Genuflect when you kneel before the tabernacle when the
light is lit, it indicates the presence of the blessed sacrament.
Penitential Rite the words we recite during the Mass to ask for
forgiveness and healing from God. Consecration when the Priest
blesses the bread and wine and the Holy Spirit changes it into the
body and blood of Christ.
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Meaning of Eucharist Complete the TB Resource: -Meaning of
Eucharist -Eucharist is
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The Eucharist is About Remembrance In the Eucharist we remember
Jesus Christ his humanity and divinity His final meal with his
disciples before he died The Last Supper His message his words,
parables, ethics and teachings. How humble yet spiritual a meal can
be = life giving The sacrifice Christ made for us in dying on the
cross The forgiveness Christians now experience through his
suffering = Salvation. This is one of the key beliefs of
Christianity, it allows believers to enjoy the promise of eternal
life with God in heaven, if they live a good life on earth.
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The Eucharist is About Remembrance Why is this important?
Memories connect our past and present, and guide our future. If a
person forgot his/her memories or stories they would lose direction
and purpose. If we lose the power to nurture our own memories and
create our own values we can be too easily influenced by negatives.
To re-member, means to put ones self, life and memories back
together. Unless we re-member our life becomes fragmented (we lose
our direction towards the truth), as Christians it is important to
recall the life of Christ, to reconnect with his message and his
lifes purpose. Participating in the gift of the Eucharist gives
life to Christians it is a key ritual that allows us to continually
have life in Christ.
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The Eucharist is About Remembrance Questions 1. Why is the
Eucharist one of the most important experiences for Christians to
have as often as possible? -Think spiritual nourishment,
remembrance, Jesus qualities. 2. Why does Jesus wash his disciples
feet when he visits them for dinner? Why is this significant for
us? -Think purity, hygiene, diseases, humble servant, getting down
to their level, love of others.
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Eucharist A Memorial Complete the TB Resource: -Eucharist A
Memorial
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Close your eyes and picture Family Dinner. June Cleaver is in
an apron and pearls, Ward in a sweater and tie. The napkins are
linen, the children are scrubbed, steam rises from the green-bean
casserole, and even the dog listens intently to what is being said.
This is where the tribe comes to transmit wisdom, embed
expectations, confess, conspire, forgive, repair. The idealized
version is as close to a regular worship service, with its litanies
and lessons and blessings, as a family gets outside a sanctuary.
Eucharist Sharing a Meal Nancy Gibbs, Time Magazine, 2006
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There is something about a shared meal--not some holiday
blowout, not once in a while but regularly, reliably--that anchors
a family even on nights when the food is fast and the talk cheap
and everyone has someplace else they'd rather be. And on those
evenings when the mood is right and the family lingers, caught up
in an idea or an argument explored in a shared safe place where no
one is stupid or shy or ashamed, you get a glimpse of the power of
this habit and why social scientists say such communion acts as a
kind of vaccine, protecting kids from all manner of harm.
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In fact, it's the experts in adolescent development who wax
most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the
teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest
dividends. Studies show that the more often families eat together,
the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed,
develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely
they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their
vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use. "If it were
just about food, we would squirt it into their mouths with a tube,"
says Robin Fox, an anthropologist who teaches at Rutgers University
in New Jersey, about the mysterious way that family dinner engraves
our souls. "A meal is about civilizing children. It's about
teaching them to be a member of their culture."
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Back in the really olden days, most meals were informal, a kind
of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. Not until the
mid--19th century did the day acquire its middle-class rhythms and
rituals; a proper dining room became a Victorian aspiration. When
children were 8 or 9, they were allowed to join the adults at the
table for instruction in proper etiquette. By the turn of the
century, restaurants had appeared to cater to clerical workers, and
in time, eating out became a recreational sport. Family dinner by
the 1950s: Mum cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the
dishes.
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All kinds of social and economic and technological factors then
conspired to shred that tidy picture to the point that the
frequency of family dining fell about a third over the next 30
years. With both parents working and the kids shuttling between
sports practices or attached to their screens at home, finding a
time for everyone to sit around the same table, eating the same
food and listening to one another, became a quaint kind of luxury.
Meanwhile, the message embedded in the microwave was that time
spent standing in front of a stove was time wasted..
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But something precious was lost, when cooking came to be cast
as drudgery and meals as discretionary. Food comes so easily to us
now, he says, that we have lost a sense of its significance. When
we had to grow the corn and fight off predators, meals included a
serving of gratitude. We have reduced eating to sitting alone and
shoveling it in. There is no ceremony in it. Or at least there
wasn't for many families until researchers in the 1980s began
looking at the data and doing all kinds of regression analyses that
showed how a shared pot roast could contribute to kids' success and
health. Researchers speculate that maybe kids who eat a lot of
family meals have less unsupervised time and thus less chance to
get into trouble. Families who make meals a priority also tend to
spend more time on reading for pleasure and homework. A whole
basket of values and habits, of which a common mealtime is only
one, may work together to ground kids. The 2005 CASA study found
that the number of adolescents eating with their family most nights
has increased 23% since 1998..
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Beyond promoting balance and variety in kids' diets, meals
together send the message that citizenship in a family entails
certain standards beyond individual whims. This is where a family
builds its identity and culture. Legends are passed down, jokes
rendered, eventually the wider world examined through the lens of a
family's values. In addition, younger kids pick up vocabulary and a
sense of how conversation is structured. They hear how a problem is
solved, learn to listen to other people's concerns and respect
their tastes.
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"A meal is about sharing," says Doherty. "I see this trend
where parents are preparing different meals for each kid, and it
takes away from that. The sharing is the compromise. Not everyone
gets their ideal menu every night." Doherty heard from a YMCA camp
counselor about the number of kids who arrive with a list of foods
they won't eat and who require basic instruction from counselors on
how to share a meal. "They have to teach them how to pass food
around and serve each other. The kids have to learn how to eat
what's there. And they have to learn how to remain seated until
everyone else is done."
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Parents sometimes seem a little too eager to be rejected by
their teenage sons and daughters, suggests Miriam Weinstein, a
freelance journalist who wrote The Surprising Power of Family
Meals. "We've sold ourselves on the idea that teenagers are
obviously sick of their families, that they're bonded to their peer
group," she says. "We've taken it to an extreme. We've taken it to
mean that a teenager has no need for his family. And that's just
not true." She scolds parents who blame their kids for undermining
mealtime when the adults are co-conspirators. "It's become a badge
of honor to say, 'I have no time. I am so busy,'" she says. "But we
make a lot of choices, and we have a lot more discretion than we
give ourselves credit for," she says. Parents may be undervaluing
themselves when they conclude that sending kids off to every
conceivable extracurricular activity is a better use of time than
an hour spent around a table, just talking to Mum and Dad.
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It turns out that when kids help prepare a meal, they are much
more likely to eat it, and it's a useful skill that seems to build
self-esteem. Research on family meals does not explore whether it
makes a difference if dinner is with two parents or one or even
whether the meal needs to be dinner. For families whose schedules
make evenings together a challenge, breakfast or lunch may have the
same value. So pull up some chairs. Lose the TV. Let the phone go
unanswered. And see where the moment takes you. Nancy Gibbs, Time
Magazine, 2006
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Sharing a Meal What is the significance of sharing a meal? How
are we nourished physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually
from the action of sharing a meal? How does the Eucharist challenge
us to reach out to others?
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Sharing a Meal -Relate the idea of meal to the personal
experiences of the students. -The importance of sharing a meal,
gathering and relating to one another -Link cultural experiences of
preparing - sharing meals relate to the schools Multicultural Day
Schools Feast Day where Eucharist is shared (Whole School Mass).
-Eucharist is spiritual food for our religious (faith) journey
-When in your life have you been fed? (physically, spiritually,
emotionally..) -Where do you get your nourishment from? Why? How?
How often? Consider Catholic Sacraments -If we have to nourish our
bodies everyday for survival, how do we nourish our spiritual
dimension for our faith to be enriched? -Being Living Eucharist:
How can we be living Eucharist to others
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Liturgy of the Eucharist 4 Rites
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Basic Structure of the Eucharist Complete the TB Resource:
-Basic Structure of the Eucharist
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Elements of the Mass Complete the TB Resource: -Elements of the
Mass
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The New Structure of the Mass What are the new changes? How do
they give life and meaning to the Mass?
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The New Structure of the Mass Old TextNew Text The Lord be with
you R: And also with you The Lord be with you R: And with your
spirit In the Penitential Act I confess to almighty Godthat I have
sinned through my own fault..in what I have done and in what I have
failed to do. And I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin, I confess to
almighty Godthat I have sinned greatlyin what I have done and in
what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault. Therefore I ask blessed Mary, ever-
Virgin In the Gloria Glory to God in the highest, and peace to His
people on earth. Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father,
We worship You, we give You thanks, we praise You for Your Glory
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good
will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we
give you thanks for your great glory
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The New Structure of the Mass Old TextNew Text In the Nicene
Creed: We believe in one Godmaker of Heaven and earth, of all that
is seen and unseen We believe in one Lordbegotten, not made, one in
being with the Father I believe in one Godmaker of Heaven and
earth, of all things visible and invisible I believe in one
Lordbegotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father Let us give
thanks to the Lord our God R: It is right to give Him thanks and
praise Let us give thanks to the Lord our God R: It is right and
just Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might, Heaven and
earth are full of your glory Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of hosts,
Heave and earth and full of your glory This is the cup of my blood,
the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for
you and for all so that sins may be forgiven For this is the
chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant,
which will be poured out for you and for many, for the forgiveness
of sins Lord I am not worthy to receive you, only say the word and
I shall be healed Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under
my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed
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Jesus Ministry Complete the TB Resource: -Jesus Ministry -How
would people on the fringes of Australian society respond today if
Jesus were here helping them?
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Last Supper Complete the TB Resource: -Last Supper
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The Lords Last Supper Complete the TB Resource: -The Lords Last
Supper
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Celebrating The Eucharist Complete the TB Resource:
-Celebrating the Eucharist
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Sacrifice Complete the TB Resource: -Sacrifice
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Eucharist as Sacrifice Complete the TB Resource: -Eucharist as
Sacrifice
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History of the Eucharist Complete the TB Resource: -History of
the Eucharist
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Celebration of the Eucharist in the Early Church Complete the
TB Resource: -Celebration of the Eucharist in the Early Church
-History of Eucharist 2
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The Road to Emmaus Complete the TB Resource: -The Road to
Emmaus
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Living the Eucharist Complete the TB Resource: -Living the
Eucharist -St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) -Feastday: September
23 -1887 - 1968 -Canonized By: Pope John Paul II
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Living the Eucharist
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Planning for a Eucharistic Celebration Complete the TB
Resource: -Planning for a Eucharistic Celebration
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Symbols and Symbolic Actions Complete the TB Resource: -Symbols
and Symbolic Actions -Symbolism of Bread and Wine
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Jesus Feeds Five Thousand Complete the TB Resource: -Jesus
Feeds Five Thousand
