What do you appreciate most about having a meal with your family ? Give each one a rating eg a= 3 (5=most appreciated) Getting well fed The sense of closeness, being a family Sharing news & discussing things Having fun experiencing love & goodness Being able to do help – preparing food, serving, clearing up To describe how the Mass is a meal To explain why God wants to share a meal with us

How is a mass like a meal? Copy out the table and match with the answers. **What difference does it make if everyone does eat and drink the same food? The Mass as a Meal What happens at a family celebration meal What happens at Mass Decorating the table, so it is a special occasion Giving special food & drink, so everyone feels satisfied in their hunger Serving the food to the person being celebrated Sharing news & information feeling of closeness by sharing the same food Bible and Gospel readings are shared reminding us what God has done for us The altar is laid with special tablecloth & candles Jesus’ body and blood is given - satisfies us spiritually People bring up gifts of bread and wine in the offertory procession Everybody shares in the same bread and wine

Bread and wine Bread Wine Staple, basic food Readily available All cultures Bread can be “broken” God fed Moses & the Jews with manna (bread from heaven) – like bread To feed 5000 Jesus used bread Wine Staple, readily available Like blood Drink of rejoicing, celebration Grapes crushed, “poured out” like Jesus was on the cross Why did Jesus choose bread & wine to be his body/ blood? With your partner, mindmap reasons why Explain The 2 most important reasons why bread is a good choice to represent Jesus’ body. 2 most important reasons why wine is a good choice to represent His blood. **What do you think happens if there is no bread or wine available? Why?

What are some benefits of eating Jesus’ bread (body)/ wine (blood)?

You are an advertising executive You are an advertising executive. You have been given the job of advertising “Jesus Bread” …think of a slogan you could use in your advertising campaign.. Jesus Bread It gives you God’s eternal life It makes you more loving and self-sacrificing, like Jesus It satisfies our hunger for God It purifies you from venial sins It gives you a higher energy and strength to overcome sins & problems It protects you from committing serious sins out of weakness It helps you to know and love God

Solve the problem filling in the gaps. Draw the “solution” **How could it be important to remember that everyone is part of one Body? Do the Math: The bread is the ________ of Christ. Eating it makes you part of Jesus’ ______ If everybody eats of the same _______ Then that makes everybody part of _____ ______ Then everyone is part of each ______ _______. SOLUTION: All who eat this bread are _____body.

How is the Mass a meal?? With your partner, mindmap the ways, from what you have learnt this lesson.

God invites us to His meal, because He wants to share His goodness with us. In the Old Testament, God said to the Jews: “Go to the one place where the Lord your God has chosen to be worshiped; take some food, or buy whatever you want—beef, lamb, wine, beer—and there, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families are to eat and enjoy yourselves. (Deut 14) In the New Testament, Jesus said to the Jews, “If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.  Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day. For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them. John 6:53-58 Underline what God asks us to eat in the Old Testament in the New Testament. Explain 2 differences between God’s meal in the Old Testament, and Jesus’ meal in the New Testament How is the food Jesus is offering us different from other food? What does eating it do for us? **Do you think that the Mass today still has the character of a celebration meal as in the OT? Why/ why not?