Word: eucharist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near Salzburg, helping a woman out of prison during a Hun invasion (upper right); the execution of St. Engelbert Kolland (lower left); and St. Francis offering his cloak (lower right). In the center a sheaf of wheat and a cluster of vines, symbolizing the bread and wine of the Eucharist, serve as the door handles. Like Manzù's bronze cardinals and Christs, the doors are conceived in the tradition of early Greece and the Renaissance, executed in an elegant, classically simple style...
...Gilles de Rais practiced- for De Rais, found guilty of murder and executed in 1440, seems to have attracted disciples in 19th century Paris. The core of their infamy is the bizarre and blasphemous rite known as the Black Mass, in which every imaginable obscenity is committed and the Eucharist itself is invoked to bring the celebrants closer not to God but to Satan...
...communion. And in the Lord's Supper he insisted that the bread was not changed into Christ's body by the priest but revealed as Christ's body by the faith of the recipient. Nevertheless. Luther did not give an inch to those who saw- the Eucharist as symbolic only. ''This is my body,'' he wrote in chalk on the conference table at which he met with his fellow reformer Zwingli in 1529. and Luther always maintained that when the Christian believer received the host, the bread contained the body of Christ...
...catechism on the Eucharist: "What is the Eucharist? The Eucharist is a sacrament which contains the actual body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine." New version...
...season's No. 1 feast, the celebration of Corpus Christi. It was the annual great event in many a village like Vingone. Children scoured the hillsides searching for flowers to string into garlands for the streets. Mothers sewed on fancy-dress costumes for the procession of the Eucharist through the streets, while their husbands wielded paintbrush and hammer on the decorations. And lilting in every heart in the village was the thought of the wining, dining and dancing that would follow; in every heart, that is, but the heart of Don Camillo. Instead of joining the festive preparations...