How to Use Eucharist in a Sentence

Eucharist

noun
  • Some of the nuns prostrate themselves while praying before the Eucharist.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 2025-02-10
  • 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, 2020-07-12
  • The pope also prayed at a chapel in his private hospital rooms and received Eucharist, according to the statement.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 2023-03-30
  • During the morning, the Holy Father received the Eucharist.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2025-02-26
  • 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, 2022-05-31
  • Each group of pilgrims is carrying the Eucharist with them on their journey to Indianapolis.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2024-07-04
  • The pope resumed work in the afternoon from his hospital room, after receiving the Eucharist in the morning.
    — Nicole Winfield, arkansasonline.com, 2025-02-27
  • Confirmation Catholic teens are confirmed in their faith as one of the three most important sacraments (along with baptism and the Eucharist).
    — Jennifer O'Donnell, Parents, 2024-07-08
  • From the National Eucharist Congress to the Olympic swimming trials.
    — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-12-17
  • After receiving the Eucharist in the morning, Francis resumed work in the afternoon.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 2025-02-26
  • Is Father Paul infusing the Eucharist with some miracle compound?
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 2021-09-30
  • 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, 2021-06-27
  • Francis received the Eucharist on Saturday morning, the Vatican said, and then prayed in the chapel of his private apartment.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 2025-03-08
  • Meanwhile, the evening bulletin said the pope has resumed some of his work activities in the afternoon, after receiving the Eucharist in the afternoon.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 2025-02-24
  • Among a sea of bland, Eucharist-esque crisps, Milton’s GF crackers stand out as excellent alternatives.
    — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 2023-02-24
  • Faced with that opposition, the bishops ultimately adopted a document on the Eucharist that didn’t explicitly address the matter.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 2022-11-13
  • 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, 2024-03-02
  • 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, 2023-02-23
  • Cattani added that the altar, ambo (an elevated pulpit), baptismal font and tabernacle plinth (where the Eucharist is kept) were crafted of Carrara marble in Carrara, Italy.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 2024-04-18
  • 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, 2021-11-18

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