Throughout my life as a practicing Catholic, I have spoken of 'going to church' as 'going to Mass' but in recent years we frequently hear it referred to as 'The Eucharist.' It has been explained many times that this is the Greek word for thanksgiving but the Mass is much more than thanksgiving. surely.
More specifically, it is Holy Communion, as many of us have always known it, that is now termed The Eucharist. To me, the term Holy Communion is the nearest expression of the miracle and wonder of receiving the life of Jesus within us.
Jesus is the 'Holy One' as we say in the Gloria, he is in communion with us and we with him. What could be more precious than that and what expresses it more closely than Holy Communion? And as we adore him when he is held aloft before our very eyes, what expresses his presence more closely than The Blessed Sacrament, the outward sign of the inner divinity of God?
For me, nothing.
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