The Eucharistic Timeline

1. THE SON ETERNALLY BEGOTTEN FROM THE FATHER (BEFORE TIME)

We cannot fully understand or grasp God. Yet, as we journey to Him through our finite, imperfect world, we can understand aspects of God...

2. THE WORD IS SPOKEN AT CREATION (IN THE BEGINNING)

At Creation, all three members of the Trinity act to bring into existence time and space and all that is in it. As St....

3. THE CREATION OF MAN AND THE FALL (IN THE BEGINNING OF HUMANITY)

The Trinitarian act of creation was completed for the purpose of revealing God and His love for us. While all of material creation has...

4. MELCHIZEDEK OFFERS BREAD AND WINE (2100 BC)

As sin spread throughout the world even after the great purging flood, God reveals himself to Abram, tells him to leave his homeland so...

5. THE TESTING OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC (2100 BC)

To fulfill His promise of descendants as many as the stars in the sky, God grants Abraham a miraculously conceived son named Isaac. After...

6. THE PASSOVER (1600 BC)

After the children of Israel lived peacefully in Egypt for 400 years because Joseph (son of Israel) saved the land through God’s wisdom, a...

7. MANNA IN THE DESERT (1600 BC)

God delivered His people from Egypt by parting the Red Sea and crushing Pharaoh's army. The Israelites entered the wilderness on their journey to...

8. ISAIAH’S COAL (750 BC)

The Kingdom of Israel split into the North (Israel) and the South (Judah) approximately 931 BC with the decision of Rehoboam to increase forced...

9. THE INCARNATION (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

While the Romans occupied Israel during the reign of Caesar Augustus, a virgin named Mary was visited by the angel Gabriel in the town...

10. THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

As a poor carpenter or craftsman who had a deep understanding of the scriptures, Jesus began His earthly ministry by traveling from town to...

11. THE BREAD OF LIFE DISCOURSE (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

After Jesus feeds a crowd of 5000 with five loaves of bread and two fish, the people come back to Jesus the next day...

12. THE LAST SUPPER (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

The night before He died, Jesus celebrated the Passover meal as His last with His Apostles before His death. Jesus took a loaf of...

13. THE PASSION AND DEATH OF JESUS (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

After Jesus institutes the Eucharist at the last supper as the New Covenant so that sins may be forgiven, He enters into the sacrifice...

14. THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

On the morning of the third day, the first day of the week (John 20:1), some of the women who had been at Jesus’...

15. THE CHURCH (THE FULLNESS OF TIME)

After the resurrection of Jesus that defeats the power of death and Hell, Jesus appears for forty days to his followers. St. Paul tells...

16. EARLY CHURCH FATHERS AFFIRM THE TRUE PRESENCE (DIDACHE 60-110 AD, IGNATIUS 110 AD, IRENAEUS 189 AD)

As the Church continued to grow through the mission and martyrdom of the Apostles, writings and instructions by the early church fathers that are...

17. THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. TARCISIUS (3RD CENTURY)

In the Roman Martyrology, we hear about the life of a young boy named Tarcisius. He lived in the third century during the persecution...

18. EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE OF LANCIANO (8TH CENTURY)

In the 8th century, there was a monastery of Basilians (monks of St. Basil) in the city of Anxanum (a city southeast of Rome...

19. TRANSUBSTANTIATION DOCTRINE (13TH CENTURY)

In response to some academics stating that Jesus was only symbolically present in the Eucharist, the Fourth Lateran Council used a relatively new term...

20. MODERN EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES (21ST CENTURY)

In the 1990s, Buenos Aires, Argentina, had three Eucharistic miracles over the course of four years. These all took place in the Church of...

21. THE MATTER, FORM, AND MINISTER OF THE EUCHARIST (TODAY)

The Church has designated that each of the seven sacraments has a matter, form, and minister needed to bring about the full effects of...

22. THE LAMB WHO WAS SLAIN IS WORTHY (ETERNITY)

God acts in total self-emptying love in eternity. Thus, His self-emptying love is present to us in every moment of time. We were created...

THE EUCHARISTIC TIMELINE