Northern MindanaoLife In The Eucharist Congress

Centrality of the

Eucharist in the Year

of Faith

Rev. Fr. Apolinario ‘Poli’ Ty, SSS

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

“sine dominico non possumus”

(without the Eucharist we cannot be)

the Sunday Eucharist which makes the Christian and the Christian that makes the Sunday Eucharist, so that one cannot subsist without the other, and vice versa?"

303 AD, Martyrs of Abitene

North Africa

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

It is one thing to know what we believe but it takes faith to live what what we believe.

Vision = way we see world and ourselves

Faith

Experience = willingness to invest/experience life

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Who would put his life in the hands of the Lord so

that it may became bread… broken and shared for the life of the world?

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

The Year of Faith begins on

October 11, 2012 and ends

on the feast of Christ the King

on November 24th 2013.”

50th year of Vatican II (Oct. 11, 1962)20th year of CCC (1992)

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

In order “to rediscover the

journey of faith so as to shed ever

clearer light on the joy and renewed

enthusiasm of the encounter

with Christ”

At the heart of our Christian Faith is

the proclamation of the Person of

Jesus Christ

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

… a profound crisis of faith that has

affected so many people’

(Porta Fidei n.2).

a loss of a religious senseBrought about by secularism IndividualismCulture of death and Death

of God Theology

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Faith is primarily a Gift from God who desires

to enter into a loving relationship with us. God opens the door of faith

for us!

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Dynamics of Faith

Faith entails truth that needs our understanding

Faith is a reality to be lived Faith is a mystery to be

celebrated

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Mystery of faith

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the Blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch. (CCC 1324)

In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking (CCC 1327).

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

The Eucharist is a sacrament of faith.

It is celebrated within the context of

faith. It invites a response in faith.

It is through the faith of the church

that the meaning of the Eucharist is

given its true content.

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

The Kerygma, the central message of the church’s proclamation of faith, is announced in a unique way in the Eucharist.

In the Eucharist, we proclaim likewise his saving death and resurrection as the source and meaning and hope for our own lives. We likewise proclaim the kingdom of God in the face of all that might seem to destroy God’s creation

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

The Eucharist is the center of the Catholic

Faith because Jesus Christ is the center of Catholic life and worship… the Eucharist is nothing less than Jesus Christ himself

Jesus Christ is here on earth again in the Eucharist

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Offer of salvation by way of a new

experience of the Presence of God

Jesus means "the Lord is salvation," "I will be with you until the

consummation of the age" (Matt. 28:20). he intended to give his own presence to

his people as an eternal gift.

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

What form would that presence take?

He gathered them for a meal and fed them.

- This is my Body…This is My Blood

- Do this in memory of me (Anamnesis)

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

The Eucharist an Absolute Necessity

We need the Eucharist for survival

We need the Eucharist for meaning

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Centrality of the

Eucharist

Christ centered people must be a

Eucharist centered people

Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Faith

Thank you!

Rev. Fr. Poli L. Ty, SSS

2013