Word: euchariste
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...night, when everyone was asleep, I would get up from my bunk, and on a rough box I would prepare the altar and celebrate Mass. For the consecration ot the Eucharist, I used little crumbs of bread and five or six drops of wine. The most difficult thing to find was the wine, but the Lord saw to it that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine...
Actually, Feeney had been deprived of his rights as a priest when he was defrocked in 1949. The interdict barred all Catholics from frequenting the Center under penalty of forfeiting the right to receive the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. Feeney ignored this ban and declared his right to "wear the Roman collar and teach the true faith...
...Benedict's under interdict. By silencing is meant that Father Feeney is not allowed to preach or teach until the ban is lifted. With St. Benedict's under interdict, anyone who goes there is denied the sacraments of the Church and cannot receive the Holy Eucharist...
...decree calling for "frequent and [even] daily Communion" settled a longstanding church controversy, silenced those who had argued that man was unworthy to take the Eucharist except at long intervals...
...predetermined until the end of time who would be saved by His grace and who would be left to the eternal damnation all men deserved. In his doctrine of the Communion, Calvin differed from Luther and the Catholics in teaching that the presence of Christ in the Eucharist is spiritual, not physical...