The Representation Of Jesus's Life

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Eucharist brings Christians together to celebrate the giving of Jesus’s body and blood and to bring ourselves closer to Jesus in doing so. The Eucharist is a representation of Jesus’s life and is because of it a representation of service, community and justice. This three qualities are shown in the life and scriptures of Jesus, Romero and St johns gospel and demonstrates the true meaning of the Eucharist.
The Eucharist is not only about simply eating bread and drinking wine to become close to Jesus but it is also is there to represent service and our positions as servants to one another. Service is the act of helping one of the core parts of the Eucharist as Jesus. Throughout the life of Jesus he shows service by healing the wounded, saving …show more content…

Jesus in his lifetime has shown justice against those who restrict the rights of the people, a man by the name Oscar Romero has also shown this against the oppressors in his country El Salvador. Justice is seeking a rightful treatment of someone or something. Jesus continually challenged Pharisees and other traditions in seeking a just cause and equality. Mk 7:3-22 Jesus challenges the Pharisees teachings of traditions after they criticized his disciples for not following tradition. This is justice in a simple form of denying a few Pharisees and traditions. When people have Eucharist they are reminded of the fact that it is ok to challenge authorities and also challenge tradition. Oscar Romero was a peaceful protester and arch bishop he fought against his government’s injustice in his home El Salvador. Oscar Romero’s home suffered through oppression and the slaughter of their own people from the government. A powerful and sad scene from a movie Oscar Romero can highlight this injustice. In the scene people are being shot by government soldiers when they were about to have Eucharist. Hence the government may have feared that the people were being reminded of their right to challenge authority and tradition. This shows the injustice and the brutal lengths the government would go to oppress the people. Eucharist calls us to look for injustice and challenge it but also calls us to

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