Parents evening session 5 - the Eucharist

Session 5 talk

A video to watch with your children

Luke 24:13-35 – The story of the disciples on the Road to Emmaus gives us an image of Mass. The disciples were walking on the road running away from the horror they had witnessed in Jerusalem - Jesus’ death. A man appeared and started walking with them. The man opened up the scriptures for them, beginning with Moses and all the prophets; he interpreted to them the things about Jesus in all the scriptures. As they came near the village, the man made to go on, but the disciples urged him to stay. When they sat down to eat together the man took bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it to them. It was at that point the disciples’ eyes were opened and they realised that the man had been Jesus all along. The disciples said to each other, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?’

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The Mass is made up of two parts: the Liturgy of the Word (the opening up of scripture) and the Liturgy of the Eucharist (the taking, the blessing, the breaking and the giving of the bread).

Videos from the session

John 6 - Jesus' teaching that he is the bread come down from heaven divided people then and divides people now.

Real Presence - Bishop Robert Barron says, "appearance and reality do not always coincide". The Church says, in the case of the Eucharist, what appears to be ordinary bread and wine, in fact is “changed” at the deepest level of its reality through the words of the priest. Words not only describe reality, but under right circumstances can change reality.