Bachelor Of Sacred Theology

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    The Relevance of the Symbolic Meaning of Jesus’s Words and Actions at the Last Supper, (Luke 22:14-20). For an Authentic Christian Living in the Contemporary Christian Communities of Zimbabwe Today.
    (Tangaza University, 2022) Reuben Mutukura
    Christianity has the largest population in Zimbabwe when it comes to religion and more importantly, Catholicism has significant numbers, but the question is, why there is little impact on Christian life and values in Zimbabwe? Human rights are violated, there are divisions among the people due to language, economic crisis, or political affiliations, and there is great poverty and a growing tendency of no concern for the other among the people except when they want to use them. The question, especially for Christians, is where are the values they proclaim every day as they worship and why is there no trace of Christian values in the society that Christianity prescribes? Where is that existential authentic and practical way of life prescribed by Jesus whom the Christian follow as they make the largest and most significant numbers when it comes to religions, In Zimbabwe? This study notices the gap that is left when it comes to practicality as people only focus on the mechanical and routine approach to religion as many consider all as magic and easily forget that there is something to be lived too in society from what we profess with our mouths and should be translated into the way we live with each other. Thus Luke 22:14– 20, stands as the foundation to understand Jesus’s teaching and be able to easily find ways to translate it to be our way of life. We live in a world characterized by a lack of commitment in the Christians, particularly Catholics, and also a failure to apply their faith in their day-to-day lives in their communities. Catholics receive the Body and Blood of Jesus every time they worship, but it ends there in church and after their worship, they go back to leave their lives as if nothing happened, and this is a very troubling issue and problem. Thus this work seeks to address this special issue by showing how the Eucharist can be the source and better means for Christians to transform their lives and live the values that the gospels give. Thus this study seeks to highlight the importance of the symbolic meaning of the Eucharist which is often forgotten, as the foundation for understanding well and appreciating the real presence of Jesus, present among His people and thus understand what it means and implies for one who receives the Eucharist and be able to live it in their daily lives.