III. The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The Lord, having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing
that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the
course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of
love.¹⁶¹ In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never
to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted
the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and Resurrection, and commanded his
apostles to celebrate it until his return; “thereby he constituted them
priests of the New Testament.”¹⁶²

PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
  - Article 3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
    - III. The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team