COMPARING THE EUCHARIST

PASSOVER SEDER

• Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Passover
• Performed by a community or family retelling the freedom of the Isrealites
• Customs include drinking cups of wine, eating matza,and partaking symbolic foods
• eat lamb symbolic of the sacrifices of umblemished lambs
• Retelling the exodus to children is the focus of Seder, strengthening their faith

SIMILARITIES TO EUCHARIST

• Eating of unleavened bread an the drinking of wine
• Meal shared with the community
• Sacrificed lamb: Jesus is the sacrificed lamb
• Eucharist brings us closer to God and strengthens our faith

DIFFERENCES

• They don't believe Jesus is the Messiah,our salvation which the Eucharist fulfills
• The unleavened bread and wine consumed is only bread and wine
• The Eucharist is a sacrament not just a feast
• In the Passover Seder there is no form or matter, just retelling exodus

THE AGHORI

• Aghori, a Hindu sect, believed God exist in everything;everything is sacred
• must have no fear or disgust for anything, nothing is unholy
• Covered themselves with ashes of the dead, used skulls for bowls(Kapala)
• Ate dead animal and human flesh , and drank human blood and urine
• They embraced death and meditated on corpses

BELIEFS

• They believed eating the dead was a direct pathway to god
• Eating human flesh developed a transcendence of lower self and realization of the greater
• Drank wine with their rituals
• Intoxication helped them unconnected with the world and lead them to devotion
• Believed eating human flesh had spiritual and physical benefits,such as preventing aging

SIMILARITIES TO EUCHARIST

• our church teaches that we are truly eating the body and blood of Christ
• The Eucharist is our salvation, human flesh was their direct path to God
• Eating the Body and Blood of Christ has spiritual benefits,as they believe with flesh

DIFFERENCES

• we do not eat the dead bodies of corpses
• We celebrate as a community, the Aghori must break all ties with community except faith
• The Body and Blood of Christ is divine not fully human flesh
• The Eucharist absolves sin, Aghori believe no act is wrong or unholy

WORKS CITED

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpJdHS1pV0
• www.chabad.org
• www.shailendrama.org/rituals/aghori
• www.jewfaq.org/seder.htm