memorial meal

Real symbolic presence and the memorial meal are standard features of traditional Catholic theology.

It is a simple memorial meal in which the fellowship of the congregation is symbolically celebrated.

Is there Biblical support for the Real Presence, or does the evidence point to a purely symbolic memorial meal?

Since we appropriate the benefits of Christ's atoning sacrifice by faith, the Lord's Supper is much more than a mere memorial meal.

The name indicates the Orthodox belief that the institution is more than a simple "memorial meal", but is the actual mystical union of the faithful with God.

There are thousands of people in the graveyard on that particular day and after church service, a memorial meal takes place on the graves and prayers are said.

The family gathers on the 40th day inviting those who wish to remember the departed visiting the grave and the church and having a memorial meal at the house.

At the time of the Reformation, the reformers eliminated the altar and the sacrifice and reduced the understanding of the Eucharist to a memorial meal at a table.

People now could belong to a new society, with a new moral standard, where the old social restrictions and classes were lost in an open fellowship around a table and memorial meal.

At their graves their families would unite with their beloved over a memorial meal and a drink, easing their grief in recreating the family intimacy, only transiently ruptured.

For those Corinthians and for many of us, the meal remains a memorial meal of morsels of bread and sips of grape juice or wine; and nothing more.

The souls of the ancestors require commemoration, whereby funeral feasts are arranged (hedeus); sacrifice or memorial meal preparations (zheryme) are practiced and distributed for the remembrance of the dead souls.

Among some of his more innovative dishes: taramosalata soufflé, sweetbread and quince souvlaki and a grain salad made with whole wheat kernels - something usually reserved for ritualistic memorial meals - tomatoes, lovage, cumin and Samothrace goat cheese.