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the extra hosts which are consecrated and must be placed safely in the tabernacle (communion
supplies)
3. stands as the symbol of the priests office of presiding over the assembly; in a cathedral, the chair
is called the cathedra
(the teaching chair)
(church furnishing)
4. the diagonal, colored cloth worn by the deacon over his alb (helper)
(priest garments)
5. the large, gold figure that has a small space to hold a consecrated host for adoration of the Body
of Christ. this consecrated host is referred to as a "blessed sacrament."
exposition = exposed and everyone praises
(church furnishing)
3. the extra hosts which are consecrated and must be placed safely in the tabernacle
(communion supplies)
CORRECT = reserve
5. gold cuplike container with a lid for holding the Body of Christ in the tabernacle
(sacred vessel)
21. the large candle used for funerals and baptisms which was lit first from the Easter Vigil fire
(always goes at the head of a casket)
(church furnishing)
31. cloth used for the priest to dry his hands THE ANSWER
before he proceeds with the consecration
of the Eucharist False = It should be → mitre
(church linen) → finger bowl
34. "little house"; colored vestment worn over the
THE ANSWER alb
(priest garments) → zucchetto
False = It should be → finger towel
CORRECT
32. body → corpus
False = It should be → chausable
THE ANSWER = True
35. a rope worn around the alb to tie at the
33. the pointed hat worn by the Bishop waist
(priest garments) → tincture (priest garments) → incense
CORRECT 38. the extra hosts which are consecrated and
must be placed safely in the tabernacle
False = It should be → cincture (communion supplies)
37. little hat worn by the Bishop 40. gold cuplike container with a lid for holding
(pope = white) the Body of Christ in the tabernacle
(priest garments) (sacred vessel)
42. "little house"; colored vestment worn over the THE ANSWER
alb
(priest garments) → chausable False = It should be → lay
THE ANSWER = True 45. the cape worn by the priest for special
occasions (matches the color of the season)
43. center, most obvious place in the Church (priest garments) → wine
where the faithful gather as the Body of Christ
to celebrate the Eucharist. it is also called the THE ANSWER
Table of the Lord.
False = It should be → cope
Mystery of Transubstantiation
One of the post-communion prayers in the Eucharistic liturgy makes this petition: “Lord, by our
sharing in the mystery of this Eucharist, let your saving love grow within us. Grant this through Christ
our Lord.”
We pray and say things like this so often in our liturgy we tend to take them for granted. Take another
and closer look at what Jesus Christ does in this great mystery of the Eucharist.
Ponder these astounding words from the prologue to the Fourth Gospel: “In the beginning was the
word, and the word was with God, and the word was God...And the word became flesh and dwelt
among us, full of grace and truth...” (John 1:1, 14a)
Sacred scripture is telling us that Almighty God has become part of the material world. And all for the
purpose of working out our salvation through the human nature (body as well a soul) of his divine
Son.
Now that Christ has been raised in glory, through his transfigured human nature God mediates to us
the salvation Christ has won for us. God acts on us in an intimate, person-to-person way.
Our contact with God is a spiritual reality made possible by god’s grace and by our response to that
grace in faith. And so for all persons who have faith in Christ, he makes himself spiritually available to
them.
Bur in his infinite love for us, Jesus Christ has chosen to do far more than be simply spiritually
available.
In the Eucharist, Jesus Christ Gives Us Direct Contact With His Human Nature
Think of your senses: Hearing, seeing, smelling, touching, tasting. You can hear or see or smell
something, but our sense of hearing or seeing or smelling is detached from its object. You are not in
direct physical contact with what you hear or see or smell.
Touching is different. We come into direct contact with something by putting our fingers or our hand
on that object. Tasting is a form of touching, but with a very great difference. Tasting – eating –
actually brings about a union between ourselves and the object of our tasting (eating). What we eat
literally becomes part of us.
Now this is deeply significant: the central act of the Catholic religion is an act of feeding on particular
food. Jesus wants us to be united with him through faith, of course. But through his Church he has
provided for much more intimate contact with himself. He has given us food – the Eucharist – through
which he gives us his very self.
At the Last Supper he said of the elements, “this is my body,” “this is my blood.” (Matt. 26:26-28).
Jesus Christ gives us himself under forms of bread and wine.
In all the other sacraments, Jesus uses physical means through which he gives us his grace: the
water of baptism, the oil of the anointing, and so. But in the Eucharist, the physical means Jesus uses
themselves become Jesus Christ himself.
Only God himself could fully explain the miracle of the Eucharist, but the Holy Spirit enables his
Church to describe the miracle, in her doctrine of transubstantiation.