What's the difference between eucharist and sacrament?

Eucharist


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
  • (n.) The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Going beyond, an attempt is made, and this, solely from the anthropological standpoint, to apply these data to the religious and mystical act of Eucharistic Manducation.
  • (2) The texts specified the foundations of these dispositions, not in a malefic view of epilepsy inherited from Morbus Sacer of Antiquity, but in decency and on account of risk incured by Eucharist in case of fit.
  • (3) The Latin community celebrates the Eucharist inside the chapel from 4.30am each day.
  • (4) This gave us further opportunity to share the experience of our dioceses and, within a context of daily Eucharist and prayer, to hear again God’s calling in Scripture and in Creation (Psalms 104, 148, 24) and to discern ways forward.
  • (5) We were profoundly moved as we participated in an Indigenous Eucharistic rite which connected Creation, Morality, and Redemption in a biblical, integral and comprehensive way.
  • (6) For the synod’s final report backtracked on key issues around admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the eucharist, and more LGBT-friendly pastoral strategies.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alice apparel, stole and maniple designed for a priest celebrating the Eucharist.
  • (8) BBC1 will broadcast the First Eucharist of Christmas live from Westminster Abbey, in addition to carols from King's College, Cambridge on BBC2, and the archbishop of Canterbury's new year message on New Year's Day.
  • (9) Does the eucharistic bread merely symbolise the body of Jesus or does it become his body, in true "substance" if not "accidental" DNA?
  • (10) And so chewing on pork products becomes a sublime union of self with planet, a Gaian eucharist.
  • (11) One bishop reportedly labelled those in favour of divorce "criminals" who are not entitled to receive the Eucharist.
  • (12) ", with the implication that the Eucharist should be attended daily.
  • (13) Urine from a fifth pneumonia patient who attended the Eucharistic Congress (but who was a dubious seroconverter) was negative.
  • (14) When we have the opening Eucharist I will definitely stand with them.
  • (15) Oil and blood are mixed together in the unholy eucharist of modern life.
  • (16) Our communities must be equal, as in the Eucharist,” she said.

Sacrament


Definition:

  • (n.) The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
  • (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
  • (n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.
  • (v. t.) To bind by an oath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless, they differed in their motivations for use and their perceptions of its influence in their lives: some employed MDMA as a sacramental adjunct for following specific spiritual paths; others viewed it as aiding their spiritual growth in more general ways.
  • (2) Only the Putin era tells many such stories: the president taking sacrament on state-run television.
  • (3) Canon Robinson replied that he believed he was in a "sacramental relationship" with his long-term partner Mark Andrew, adding that it was a reflection of God's desire for humans to be in sexual relationships.
  • (4) It became one more holy object in the communal sacrament that, thanks to the gods of business, technology, and creativity, TV had become in the early 21st century.
  • (5) I think the person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament' was right.
  • (6) But this year, it is a major focus for evangelicals as well as for Roman Catholics.” Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who was elected to the Senate in 2012, once again invoked what he called the Obama administration’s “assault on our religious liberty” – name-checking everything from the supreme court’s Hobby Lobby contraception case to church groups helping the poor, and from abortion to “the sacrament of marriage”.
  • (7) United by the holy sacrament of marriage, they go off to America to teach.
  • (8) "For someone who's religious, marriage is a sacrament, and a sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace," she said.
  • (9) In church eyes, any sacraments the cardinal had subsequently administered would be illicit.
  • (10) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
  • (11) Its hero, Lionel Espy, is a doubting cleric who is far more concerned with the church's social commitments than its sacramental obligations; as a result he is banished from the team-ministry he has created in south London.
  • (12) Almost all of us are somewhere on a spectrum of interpretation and we switch up and down that spectrum as ... we try to apply scripture to the concrete messiness of living.” Protestants, he added, “do not understand marriage as a sacrament but as a covenant voluntarily entered into by two persons who bind themselves to each other in a series of vows”.
  • (13) Hence Poussin's insistent structuring (which becomes strikingly experimental in a series of canvases sent to Cardinal Richelieu, the Seven Sacraments : the Dulwich has managed to borrow five of them to display alongside Cullinan's exhibition).
  • (14) In Vegas I had made a friend who shared my sacramental devotion to marijuana, my dilated obsession with gaming and my ballistic impatience to play GTA IV.
  • (15) He lends to the observation of nature the sense of something essentially sacramental.
  • (16) The Supreme Court now has established a legal precendent running contrary to previous lower court cases that has implications for the religious use of peyote, specifically, and for nontraditional use of sacramental drugs, generally.
  • (17) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
  • (18) Our church denies women the ability to use modern technology and medicine to control their fertility, even though Pope Francis told us this year that we no longer “need to breed like rabbits.” Our church tells divorced people they have failed as Christians – even if the marriage was abusive or if their spouse was cheating on them – and denies them access to the sacraments.
  • (19) But before getting overly sanctimonious, journalism is not altogether a sacrament to truth.
  • (20) This is a dramatisation of the sacramental force of song: it has the power to make present what it represents, to conjure up the inspiration and protection it seeks.