YOUCAT Lesson 210
YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth
210 How did Christ institute the Eucharist?
“For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you,
that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he
had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body, which is for
you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In
the same way also the chalice, after supper, saying, ‘This chalice is the new
covenant in my blood. Do this, as often
as you drink it, in remembrance of me’” (Corinthians 11:23-25).
This (the above,) the oldest account of the events in the
Upper Room at the Last Supper, is by the apostle Paul, who was not an
eyewitness himself, but rather wrote down what was being preserved as a holy
mystery by the young Christian community and was being celebrated in the
liturgy. 99
“It was as though I heard a voice from on high: I am the
food of the strong; eat then of me and grow.
But you will not transform me into yourself like food for the body, but
rather you will be transformed into me.”
St. Augustine (354-430 at the time of his conversion)
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