YOUCAT Question n. 209 - Part I. When did Christ institute the Eucharist?
(Youcat answer) Christ instituted the
Holy Eucharist on the evening before his death, “on the night when he was
betrayed” (1 Cor 11:23), when he gathered the Apostles around him in the Upper
Room in Jerusalem and celebrated the Last Supper with them.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 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 given to us’" (SC 47). (CCC
1338) The three synoptic Gospels and St. Paul have handed on to us the account
of the institution of the Eucharist; St. John, for his part, reports the words
of Jesus in the synagogue of Capernaum that prepare for the institution of the
Eucharist: Christ calls himself the bread of life, come down from heaven (Cf.
Jn 6).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1337) The Lord, having loved those who
were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour had come to leave
this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their
feet and gave them the commandment of love (Cf. Jn 13:1-17; 34-35). In order to
leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to
make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial
of his death and Resurrection, and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until
his return; "thereby he constituted them priests of the New
Testament" (Council of Trent (1562):
DS 1740).
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