How to Use Eucharist in a Sentence

Eucharist

noun
  • Viaticum is a term given to the Eucharist when it is given to someone who is in severe danger of death.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Holy Eucharist, bread consecrated as the body of Christ, was taken from the tabernacle and thrown on the altar.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • There was no Eucharist or passing of the peace, and the usual post-service coffee hour was held by video conference.
    David Crary, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2020
  • But that doesn’t make politicizing the Eucharist any less disheartening to people like Evans who are trying to be the face of the church in the community.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
  • The pope also prayed at a chapel in his private hospital rooms and received Eucharist, according to the statement.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Robert, who handed out the Eucharist and marked ash crosses on the foreheads of his fellow parishioners, once gifted O’Connell a toy train set for Christmas after the young priest said his family was never able to buy him one.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Traditionally, there is no Mass and no celebration of the Eucharist on Good Friday.
    Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Among a sea of bland, Eucharist-esque crisps, Milton’s GF crackers stand out as excellent alternatives.
    Sarah Madaus, SELF, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Is Father Paul infusing the Eucharist with some miracle compound?
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But later in the day, a more significant decision came up, when the bishops voted on a 30-page teaching about the Eucharist, Catholicism’s central ritual of taking bread and wine to be in the presence of Jesus Christ.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Histories of eating disorders often begin with anorexia mirabilis (the holy loss of appetite), a medieval phenomenon of fasting saints who subsisted on little more than the Eucharist.
    Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Faced with that opposition, the bishops ultimately adopted a document on the Eucharist that didn’t explicitly address the matter.
    Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022

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