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After the Protestant Reformation there was a move amongst some groups of Christians to try to return to the practices of the New Testament Church. One such group was the Schwarzenau Brethren (1708) who counted a Love Feast consisting of Feet-washing, the Agape Meal, and the Eucharist among their "outward yet sacred" ordinances.
With the exception of Churches of the Armenian Rite, the Maronite Church, and the Syro-Malabar Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches use leavened bread for the Eucharist. Thus, the sacramental bread is the Resurrected Christ.
In the Catholic Church the Eucharist is considered as a sacrament, according to the church the Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life". [83] "The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it.
Simnel cake - symbolically associated with Lent and Easter and particularly Mothering Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent). [34] Soul cake, soulmass-cake, or somas loaf - small bread-like cakes distributed on or around All Souls Day, sometimes known historically as soulmass or, by contraction, somas. The cakes commemorate the souls of the ...
Most Christians have read about the earliest days of the church, found in the opening chapters of Acts and the collection of Epistles. The moment we read about in Acts Chapter 2 almost reads like ...
The Christian season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday. Here's what you need to know about the significant 6-week period leading up to Easter.
World Communion Sunday is a celebration observed by several Protestant denominations, taking place on the first Sunday of every October, that promotes Christian unity and ecumenical cooperation. [1] It focuses on an observance of the Eucharist. The tradition was begun in 1933 by Hugh Thomson Kerr who ministered in the Shadyside Presbyterian Church.
Ingredients. 1 (10.5-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup. 1 package onion soup mix. 2/3 cup water. 2 pounds lean stew beef, cut into 2-in. cubes. 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper