Are you an expert on the Eucharist? Take this quiz

1. In which Gospel does Jesus say, “I am the bread of life”?

2. Which prophet’s vision of a future messianic banquet is seen as a precursor to the Eucharistic feast?

3. Which Gospel contains the account of Jesus instituting the Eucharist at the Last Supper?

4. Which Old Testament event is considered a prefiguration of the Eucharist?

5. In which book of the New Testament are the early Christians described as devoted to “the breaking of bread”?

6. Which book of the Bible have modern scholars dated as the earliest record of the institution of the Eucharist?

7. In the story of the encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus in Luke’s Gospel, the disciples recognized Jesus …

8. Which Old Testament figure offered bread and wine in worship of God in the Book of Genesis?

1. What term does the Catholic Church use to describe the change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ?

2. What is the theological term used to describe the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist?

3. What does the word “Eucharist” mean?

4. The Second Vatican Council calls the Eucharist the _____ and _____ of Christian life.

5. Which Greek word is used by theologians to describe the memorial character of the Eucharistic liturgy?

6. Which Church council was called to address the errors of the Protestant Reformation, which included clarifying Catholic teaching on the Mass and the Eucharist?

7. Which of the following is not true about the Eucharist?

8. The Church celebrates the Eucharist because:

1. Which feast celebrates the institution of the Eucharist?

2. What is the name of the vessel used to hold the consecrated hosts during Eucharistic adoration?

3. Which prayer is said during the Mass to invoke the Holy Spirit during the Eucharistic Prayer?

4. What is “viaticum”?

5. Catholics are obliged by the Church to receive holy Communion:

6. In 1973, the chief Advisory Board of the World Health Organization appointed a scientific commission to study the host that had miraculously turned to flesh in Lanciano, Italy. It ran this many tests to authenticate the supernatural nature of the event:

7. On October 19, 2008, a religious sister opened a safe to dispose of a host that had accidentally fallen to the ground during Mass a week prior only to discover that the host had miraculously begun to bleed in which city:

8. When analyzed by modern scientific means, the host that miraculously turned to flesh in Legnica, Poland, in 2013 most closely resembled:

1. Which Pope Pius lowered the age of the reception of holy Communion?

2. Which saint wrote the hymns of the Eucharist (e.g., “Pange Lingua,” “Adoro te Devote”) sung on the feast of Corpus Christi?

3. Which saint had a vision of the moon marked by an opaque line, the interpretation of which prompted the beginnings of the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi?

4. Which saint wrote to the pagan emperor Antoninus Pius to explain Christian worship, demonstrating that the order of the Mass has remained constant down to the present day?

5. Which saint told the 1976 Eucharistic Congress held in Philadelphia: “To be able to live this life … we need our life to be woven with the Eucharist. That’s why we begin our day with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist”?

6. Which saint, while too ill to attend Mass, experienced a vision of the sights and sounds of Mass projected on the wall of her cell?

7. Which saint, known for his love for the Eucharist, called the Eucharist “my highway to heaven”?

8. Which saint was martyred in the time of Emperor Valerian’s persecution while taking the Eucharist to Christian prisoners?