Spirit of Truth, Parish Edition > Grade 1 > Unit 5
Lesson 24: We Worship as a Community in Our Parish
The members of the Church are the Body of Christ.
The members of the Church are the Body of Christ.
At every Mass, the events of our salvation are made present to us on the altar in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, and we are invited take part in this memorial of our salvation.
The Mass is the celebration of Divine Worship and the highest celebration of our Faith.
We must be prepared to receive Holy Communion at Mass and to better understand the mystery of Christ’s presence to us in the Eucharist.
A Sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace.
In order to live the good life we must cultivate not only the inner life of moral virtue, but the outer life by our participation in our communities, participation in the Sacraments, and instruction by those holy ones who came before us.
Transubstantiation is the theological term used to describe the miraculous change of the gifts of bread and wine into Jesus’ Body and Blood.
Jesus taught us that He is the Bread of Life and that we must eat His Body and drink His Blood in order to have eternal life.
The sacrificial lamb was a sign of the Passover that saved the Israelites from the Angel of Death.
At Jesus’ Baptism, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus and God the Father spoke from Heaven.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
He changed bread and wine into His Body and Blood.
Just as the food we eat becomes a part of us to nourish us and give us life and health, so too does the Eucharist make us a part of Christ and give us spiritual life.
The members of the Church are the Body of Christ.
The Paschal Mystery is how Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection saved us from sin and death for new life as sons and daughters of God.