1. relating to or professing Christianity or its teachings."the Christian Church"a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Christianity.

Application:

1. a formal request to an authority."an application for leave"
2. the action of putting something into operation."the application of general rules to particular cases"

Death: 

the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism.

Destiny: 

the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future.

Myth:

1. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events."ancient Celtic myths"
2. a widely held but false belief or idea.

Eucharist:

the Christian service, ceremony, or sacrament commemorating the Last Supper, in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed.

Higher Authority Source

Reading the two articles, and after interpreting the Emmaus Scripture (2-3 paragraph answers to);
1. How does the Emmaus Story from Scripture (Luke) inform you about the purpose of the Eucharist for believers?
2. What do you think the scriptural author wants believers to do with this story and with the practice of the 'ritual'?

the larger reading, 'postmodern dilemma' does not have to be fully read - there is an attachment showing which parts to read.

https://e.edim.co/1897487/on_the_road_to_emmaus_1_2.pdf?Expires=1430442531&Signature=PFNNgszX1iYVyf9m9IMygJzHdpkXYGYr-vqC527ImL40mW-bN-YWA5wtB9ZkoZNYtWpLvh9Y38IJLkMFITKwk7FlhrN8gurgh~ptyQ8y8-9MlRi8egZBgpEHqR6cQj92qX0AAB4YWEwVEP0a40nzO70Hx1XrEZnpE4SykSY2D6zTGu8OyUQ2Wag4ZsVVBsJdXrb49pJhu6fSALI0i40xync7yFW9Sw3FjnMv~0x--yu7j7a3UpmzJv-O6vnrr1FiZYGi1MCsOPxjEnSHzI6ZAkJ21jPkjR6mot37Ircg3CjTCKB7tZSAi0LZZ-imIaO4JseixXcDqftP9F1t1~YuZg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIJNVNRBLLSTGN23Q

* The Liturgy of the Eucharist begins with the preparation of the gifts and the altar. 

* As the ministers prepare the altar, representatives of the people bring forward the bread and wine that will become the Body and Blood of Christ.

* The celebrant blesses and praises God for these gifts and places them on the altar, the place of the Eucharistic sacrifice.

* In addition to the bread and wine, monetary gifts for the support of the Church and the care of the poor may be brought forward. 

* The Prayer over the Offerings concludes this preparation and disposes all for the Eucharistic Prayer.

* http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-eucharist/

* a rite considered by most Christian churches to be a sacrament. 

* According to some new Testament books, it was instituted by Jesus Christ during his Last Supper.

* Giving his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to "do this in memory of me," while referring to the bread as "my body" and the wine as "my blood."

* Through the Eucharistic celebration Christians remember Christ's sacrifice of himself once and for all on the cross.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist

At the moment of death, the soul is separated from the body and no longer sustains order within the natural body; as a result, the body begins to corrupt and left to its own will decompose. 

The soul, however, is immortal and never ceases to exist, once created. 

Immediately upon death, the soul of each person is judged by the Lord, either to eternal life or the damnation of hell. 

For those damned to hell, such a soul immediately experiences hell thereafter. 

For a soul judged to heaven, if the soul is truly holy then it may immediately experience the fullness of heaven. 

We call such souls “the saints.” 

For those who are judged to eternal life yet still have some attachment to sin or there is some temporal punishment due for sin, such a soul experiences purgatory in the manner that God determines. 

Purgatory is really a blessing, for not only does the soul know that it is destined for heaven but purgatory purges anything from the soul which would limit the vision and enjoyment of God in heaven. 

Eventually, when the end of the world comes about, there will be a resurrection of the bodies of all the dead and final judgment of all souls and the angels in which we will all see the justice and mercy of God. 

Our bodies will be resurrected and body and soul will be rejoined, for to be a human person means to have both body and soul. 

This is true both for the saved and the damned, and both will experience either eternal happiness or eternal suffering in both body and soul.

How does the Eucharistic Rite express belief of destiny?

A: Do we have to explain the symbolic meaning of Holy Communion and what it represents????

B: You have to focus on how the Eucharist gives Catholics Purpose. And from there assess the P.O.V of the source, is it personal to the person, the church, heir-achy etc. But focus more on the initial question of How the Eucharist gives purpose to the lives of Catholics? I'm focusing on how the Eucharist creates purpose for Catholics. This is what I've found other people doing and this is also what I've heard him focus on more so than the destiny and things like that.

In Catholic Christian understanding, all of human history is geared toward salvation. 

Humans are trapped by their own sinfulness in bondage to death, but God broke the bondage, allowing who believe in Christ to be saved from their fate of death. 

Catholics have affirmed no salvation outside the Church; this means that all those who are not in communion with the Catholic Church cannot be saved. 

More recently; Catholics believe that the Church is the sign of God's presence in the world, that all those who come to God do so through the medium of the Church even when they themselves do not recognize the Catholic Church's role in their salvation.

Catholics see a close connection between salvation and atonement, which is the way that God comes to forgive human sin through the actions of Jesus the Christ. 

A number of writers in the early Church believed that humans were in bondage to Satan, deserving death because of their sins. 

Since Jesus lived a perfect and sinless life, he owed nothing to Satan but allowed himself to suffer death anyway, ransoming the souls of all of humanity by breaking Satan's claim to own them due to sinfulness. 

St. Anselm said that humans owe God a perfect life but are unable to deliver it because of their sinfulness. 

God became incarnate in Jesus and lived a perfect life, meaning that he owed nothing more to God, but he freely chose to accept death. 

With this action he created such a surplus of obedience and honor that he repaid to God all that humans had been or would be unable to pay. 

Thus he substituted his obedience for their sinfulness.

In traditional Catholic understanding, the human retains individuality beyond death and goes on to experience one of three states of being: heaven, purgatory, or hell. 

Heaven is the place of perfect peace and joy, a place where humans join the angels in having direct knowledge of God and praising God through eternity. 

It is the hope and desire of all Catholics to reach heaven and exist in this perfection, but they generally believe that most souls are not cleansed enough of sin in this lifetime to be ready for heaven and instead will enter an interim state called purgatory.

This breaking of the bread symbolises....... (USE SOURCE - http://www.gotquestions.org/breaking-of-bread.html)

- I don't know if this fits, but this is the last paragraph on the source linked above and I thought that atleast if we re-worded it and adding a few contexts of our own, it could be relevant to the task-?-:

Another significance of the broken bread is the symbolism of Christ, the Bread of Life, being broken on the cross for our sin. At the first communion in the upper room, Jesus describes the breaking of the bread in these terms: “This is my body, broken for you” (1 Corinthians 11:24). Although not a bone of Jesus’ body was broken on the cross (John 19:31-33,36;Psalm 34:20), His skin and flesh were torn and broken by blows with rods and fists, by whippings and scourgings, by thorns, nails, and spears. His body and soul were divided from each other by death, and by that brokenness, we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). As His people, we participate in His sufferings and brokenness, being broken by sin as He was broken by the punishment He willingly received for our redemption. “And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Corinthians 10:16).

It gives Catholics purpose because......

(This source should cover the answer - I only briefly overlooked it - http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/14192/what-is-the-significance-of-priest-breaking-the-bread-host-in-a-catholic-mass)

xI received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that ythe Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 5 you. Do this in remembrance of me.”6 zuntil he comes.

aWhoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord bin an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning cthe body and blood of the Lord. dLet a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ehave died.7 fBut if we judged8 ourselves truly, we would not be judged. gwe are disciplined9 so that we may not be hcondemned along with the world.

10 when you come together to eat, wait for11 one another— iif anyone is hungry, jlet him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things kI will give directions lwhen I come.

St. John's Gospel states: "For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world."

B: Nope, still don't get it