eucharistize

present singular third person eucharistizes · participle present eucharistizing · participle past eucharistized · past eucharistized

1. intransitiveTo give thanks to God and remember Christ by communal activity, especially by eating and drinking the bread and wine of the Eucharist; to share in communion.

   On the Day of the Lord , gather together , break bread and eucharistize , after confessing your sins , so that your offering may be pure .

   1971, David Ayerst, Arthur Stanley Theodore Fisher, Records of Christianity - Volume 1, page 57

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   To sleep, to eat, to accept interruption, to be concerned, to be patient, to be honest, to be available, to be cheerful, to be humble, to be compassionate, to be, is to “eucharistize."

   1968, Arthur Anton Vogel, Is the Last Supper finished?: Secular light on a sacred meal, page 87

   Seeing Christians' inability to eucharistize together as 'an outright denial of Christ and of God's saving plan for the unity of mankind . . . is a strong theological argument which actively urges intercommunion.'

   1973, One in Christ - Volumes 9-10, page 120

2. alternativetransitiveAlternative form of Eucharistize.

   The very mission of the church is to eucharistize the material creation.

   2014, Michael S. Northcott, Peter M. Scott, Systematic Theology and Climate Change: Ecumenical Perspectives

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   the second concerns the prescription for everyone to eucharistize his own cup.

   1993, Jean Magné, From Christianity to gnosis and from gnosis to Christianity, page 25

   The Word of God gave flesh and blood to Christ; the Word of God eucharistizes the bread and wine.

   2013, Owen F. Cummings, Eucharist and Ecumenism

present singular third person Eucharistizes · participle present Eucharistizing · participle past Eucharistized · past Eucharistized

1. transitiveTo bless or consecrate in memory of Christ; To prepare as the Eucharist.

   And are not the Blessings of God the Father conveyed by the Holy Ghost? To Eucharistize or Bless the Elements is, therefore, in other words, to pray for the Descent of the Holy Ghost.

   1917, William John Sparrow-Simpson, The Prayer of Consecration, page 74

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   The effect of this consecration is to Eucharistize — that is, convert, refashion, transmute — the physical reality of bread and wine into that sacred reality which is the glorified God-Man.

   1997, Richard Foley, Mary and the Eucharist, page 44

   The affinities between Guroian and Cavanaugh are, perhaps, best summed up in Cavanaugh's declaration that the “point is not to politicize the Eucharist, but to 'Eucharistize' the world.”

   2012, Aristotle Papanikolaou, The Mystical as Political