1st talk of Rev Fr Poli Ty, SSS at the Northern Mindanao Life In The Eucharist Congress.

1. Northern Mindanao
Life In The Eucharist Congress

2. Centrality of the
Eucharist in the Year
of Faith
Rev. Fr. Apolinario ‘Poli’ Ty, SSS

3. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
“sine dominico non
possumus”
(without the Eucharist we cannot be)
the Sunday Eucharist which makes the Christian
and the Christian that makes the Sunday
Eucharist, so that one cannot subsist without
the other, and vice versa?"
303 AD, Martyrs of Abitene
North Africa

4. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
It is one thing to know what we believe but it takes
faith to live what what we believe.
Vision = way we see world
and ourselves
Faith
Experience = willingness to
invest/experience life

5. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Who would put his life in
the hands of the Lord so
that it may became bread…
broken and shared for
the life of the world?

6. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
The Year of Faith begins on
October 11, 2012 and ends
on the feast of Christ the King
on November 24th 2013.”
50th year of Vatican II (Oct. 11, 1962)
20th year of CCC (1992)

7. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
In order “to rediscover the
journey of faith so as to shed ever
clearer light on the joy and renewed
enthusiasm of the encounter
with Christ”
 At the heart of our Christian Faith is
the proclamation of the Person of
Jesus Christ

8. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
… a profound crisis of faith that has
affected so many people’
(Porta Fidei n.2).
a loss of a religious sense
Brought about by secularism
Individualism
Culture of death and Death
of God Theology

9. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Faith is primarily a
Gift from God who desires
to enter into
a loving relationship with us.
God opens the door of faith
for us!

10. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Dynamics of Faith
 Faith entails truth that needs
our understanding
 Faith is a reality to be lived
 Faith is a mystery to be
celebrated

11. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Mystery of faith
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.
The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries
and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist
and are oriented toward it. For in the Blessed Eucharist is
contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely
Christ himself, our Pasch. (CCC 1324)
In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith:
"Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the
Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking (CCC 1327).

12. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
The Eucharist is a sacrament of faith.
It is celebrated within the context of
faith. It invites a response in faith.
It is through the faith of the church
that the meaning of the Eucharist is
given its true content.

13. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
The Kerygma, the central message of the
church’s proclamation of faith, is announced
in a unique way in the Eucharist.
In the Eucharist, we proclaim likewise his saving
death and resurrection as the source and meaning
and hope for our own lives. We likewise proclaim
the kingdom of God in the face of all that might
seem to destroy God’s creation

14. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
The Eucharist is the center of the Catholic
Faith because Jesus Christ is the center of
Catholic life and worship… the Eucharist is
nothing less than Jesus Christ himself
Jesus Christ is here on earth again
in the Eucharist

15. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Offer of salvation by way of a new
experience of the Presence of God
 Jesus means "the Lord is salvation,"
 "I will be with you until the
consummation of the age" (Matt. 28:20).
 he intended to give his own presence to
his people as an eternal gift.

16. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
What form would that presence take?
 He gathered them for a meal and fed them.
- This is my Body…This is My Blood
- Do this in memory of me
(Anamnesis)

17. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
The Eucharist an Absolute Necessity
We need the Eucharist for
survival
 We need the Eucharist
for meaning

18. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Centrality of the
Eucharist
Christ centered people
must be a
Eucharist centered people

19. Centrality of the Eucharist in the Year of Fait
Thank you!
Rev. Fr. Poli L. Ty, SSS
2013