:" denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue " and anyone who " saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood-the species only of the bread and wine remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation, let him be anathema.

At a council held in the Lateran, he could get no hearing, and a formula representing what seemed to him the most carnal view of the sacrament was offered for his acceptance.

Based on this theological approach, most Protestants do not have a sacrament of ordination like the pre-Reformation churches.

The articles for the most part concurred with the pre-Reformation teachings of the Church in England and defended, among other things, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the sacrament of confession, the honouring and invocation of saints and prayer for the dead.

The Catholic Church has regarded the Eucharist as its most important sacrament, going back to apostolic times.

According to Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism and most forms of Protestantism, a baptism is not valid if the Trinitarian formula is not used in the administration of that sacrament.

I recall writing ( and the words now make me shudder ) that the only meaningful sacrament left to human beings was for them to gather in the streets in order to be sick together, splashing vomit on the paving stones as the final and most eloquent plea to an apparently deaf, dumb and blind God.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church, commonly called Mormons ), the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, most often simply referred to as the sacrament, is the sacrament in which participants partake of bread and drink water in remembrance of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

As most males in the church age 16 years and older are able to perform the ordinance, it is common for church congregations to send men to the homes of sick or homebound members in order to administer the sacrament to them.

The sacrament is considered the most sacred and important element of the Sunday meetings and as such is approached by the Latter Day Saints with reverence and in a spirit of penitence.

Matrimony, for most of Church history, was a sacrament celebrated ( as in the Judaic tradition ) without clergy and was done according to local customs.

A careful study of the rite has persuaded most modern scholars that the rite was fully a sacrament in present-day terms.

Of the sixteen sanskaras in Hinduism, the sacrament of marriage or Vivah Sanskara is the most important.

Affirming that the " Church's first purpose is to be the sacrament of the inner union of men with God " ( CCC 775 ), John Paul II, in the Apostolic Letter At the Beginning of the New Millennium, placed sanctity, " this high standard of ordinary Christian living ," as the single most important priority of all pastoral activities in the universal Church " for all times.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

Through the sacrament a gift of the Holy Spirit is given, that renews confidence and faith in God and strengthens against temptations to discouragement, despair and anguish at the thought of death and the struggle of death ; it prevents from losing Christian hope in God's justice, truth and salvation.

The teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Church on the Holy Mystery ( sacrament ) of Unction is similar to that of the Roman Catholic Church.

Chorbishops are not generally ordained bishops – they are not given the sacrament of Holy Orders in that degree – but function as assistants to the diocesan bishop with certain honorary privileges.

The Eucharist (), also called Holy Communion, the Sacrament of the Altar, the Blessed Sacrament, the Lord's Supper, and other names, is a Christian sacrament or ordinance.

The Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry document of the World Council of Churches, attempting to present the common understanding of the Eucharist on the part of the generality of Christians, describes it as " essentially the sacrament of the gift which God makes to us in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit ", " Thanksgiving to the Father ", " Anamnesis or Memorial of Christ ", " the sacrament of the unique sacrifice of Christ, who ever lives to make intercession for us ", " the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, the sacrament of his real presence ", " Invocation of the Spirit ", " Communion of the Faithful ", and " Meal of the Kingdom ".

In the Roman Catholic ( Latin: sacri ordines ), Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ( ιερωσύνη, ιεράτευμα, Священство ), Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, Independent Catholic churches and some Lutheran churches Holy Orders comprise the three orders of bishop, priest and deacon, or the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders.

In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops, like priests, are celibate and thus unmarried ; further, a bishop is said to possess the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders, empowering him to ordain deacons, priests, and – with papal consent – other bishops.

Another recent theory holds that the earliest stories that cast the Grail in a Christian light were meant to promote the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Holy Communion.

Although the practice of Holy Communion was first alluded to in the Christian Bible and defined by theologians in the 1st centuries AD, it was around the time of the appearance of the first Christianised Grail literature that the Roman church was beginning to add more ceremony and mysticism around this particular sacrament.

Rather than holding a purely symbolic view, Calvin noted that with the participation of the Holy Spirit, faith was nourished and strengthened by the sacrament.

The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is that " Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament " and that, since " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ," " Baptism of blood " ( as in the case of the martyrs, who are understood to include the Holy Innocents ) and, for catechumens at least, the explicit desire for Baptism, " together with repentance for their sins, and charity ," (" Baptism of Desire ") ensure salvation for those unable to receive Baptism by water.

Today the term " priest " is used in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and some branches of Lutheranism to refer to those who have been ordained to a ministerial position through receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders, although " presbyter " is also used.

The only sacrament which may be celebrated only by a bishop is that of Ordination ( cheirotonia, " Laying-on of Hands "), or Holy Orders.

" In fact, the United Methodist Church uses unfermented grape juice in the sacrament of Holy Communion, thus " expressing pastoral concern for recovering alcoholics, enabling the participation of children and youth, and supporting the church's witness of abstinence.

A growing number of congregations celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion on a weekly basis, as John Wesley himself encouraged his followers to practice.

The holiday was also one of the three days each year ( along with Christmas and Easter ) Roman Catholics were required to confess and receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in order to remain in good church standing.

Deacons, like priests and bishops, are ordinary ministers of the sacrament of Baptism and can serve as the church's witness at the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, which the bride and groom administer to each other ( though if the exchange of vows takes place in a wedding Mass, or Nuptial Mass, the Mass is celebrated by the priest and the deacon acts as another witness ).

Such Communion Tables often bear the inscription: " Do This in Remembrance of Me ", which they believe indicates Holy Communion as being a memorial rather than a sacrament.

Although practice in this regard varies, in general, if a convert comes to Orthodoxy from another Christian confession and has previously undergone a rite of baptism in the Trinitarian Formula (" in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit "), he or she may be received into the Orthodox Church through the sacrament of chrismation, after which receiving the Holy Eucharist.

The seven sacraments were reaffirmed and the Eucharist pronounced to be a true propitiatory sacrifice as well as a sacrament, in which the bread and wine were consecrated into the Eucharist ( thirteenth and twenty-second sessions ).

The word Eucharist may refer not only to the rite but also to the consecrated bread ( leavened or unleavened ) and wine ( or unfermented grape juice in some Protestant denominations, water in the LDS Church's sacrament ), used in the rite.

Many Christian denominations classify the Eucharist as a sacrament.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

Reception of the Eucharist in this form is the only sacrament essentially associated with dying.

Accordingly, " the celebration of the Eucharist as Viaticum is the sacrament proper to the dying Christian ".

In Roman Catholic theology, transubstantiation ( in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek μετουσίωσις metousiosis ) is the doctrine that, in the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and the wine used in the sacrament is changed into the substance of the Body and the Blood of Jesus, while all that is accessible to the senses ( the appearances-species in Latin ) remains as before.

The church holds that the celebration of the Eucharist is an anamnesis of Jesus ’ death, and believes the sacrament to be a means of grace, and practices open communion.

Later, churches owned vineyards and monks produced wine for use in the sacrament of Eucharist.

" Mass " is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church, Latin liturgical rites, Western Rite Orthodox Churches, as well as in similar celebrations in Old Catholic Churches, in some Anglican parishes, and in many Lutheran Churches.