Yohanes Driyanto, Yasintha Soelasih

People’s Behavior towards the Celebration of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church

Introduction

People’s behavior towards the celebration of the eucharist in the catholic church. This research investigates Catholic attitudes and behaviors towards the Eucharist celebration, revealing how positive attitudes significantly influence individual engagement and participation.

Abstract

Food is a must for human being. It is analog with the Eucharist for the Catholics. Based on the belief, therefore, this research is intended to see the attitude of the people and the teachings obtained in the celebration of Eucharist in shaping individual behavior. There are two characteristics of attitudes, positive and negative. The positives encourage the faithful to have fuller awareness and more active participation in the celebration. The negatives create in the heart and mind of them a kind of reluctance and compulsion in having it. To support the results of this research, it was conducted with qualitative and quantitative methods respectively. The first was done by focus group discussion (FGD) and the second by 222 respondents giving their answers to the questionnaire online. Smart-PLS tools were used as research instruments and to address the problems studied. There are seven hypotheses formed by the problems and the results accepted are only one: a positive attitude towards the Eucharist influences individual behavior in the Eucharist. The attitude encourages the Catholics to get more involved in the celebration. This research contributes to the formation of the Catholics in having the celebration of the Eucharist in Catholic Church.

Review

This study investigates the influence of attitudes and teachings on the behavior of Catholics towards the celebration of the Eucharist. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research gathered qualitative data through Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and quantitative data from 222 online questionnaire respondents. Smart-PLS software was utilized for the analysis, aiming to test seven hypotheses. The central finding indicates that a positive attitude towards the Eucharist significantly impacts individual behavior, encouraging greater engagement in the celebration, which was the sole accepted hypothesis. The authors suggest this research contributes to the formation of Catholics regarding their participation in the Eucharist. While the study addresses a highly relevant and significant topic within Catholic practice and utilizes a commendable mixed-methods design, the abstract presents several areas that warrant clarification. The opening analogy, comparing food for humans to the Eucharist for Catholics, is rather simplistic for a scholarly abstract. More importantly, the description of the methodology could be more precise; for instance, stating that "Smart-PLS tools were used as research instruments" conflates a statistical analysis software with data collection instruments. Furthermore, the low acceptance rate of hypotheses (one out of seven) raises questions about the theoretical framework, the formulation of the other six hypotheses, or the scope of the quantitative model, which are not elaborated upon in the abstract. A clearer articulation of how the qualitative and quantitative data were integrated and analyzed would also enhance understanding of the mixed-methods approach. Despite these methodological ambiguities in its summary, the paper's core finding – that a positive attitude is a key driver for involvement in Eucharistic celebration – offers a valuable insight. This finding has clear implications for pastoral care, catechetical programs, and strategies aimed at fostering more active and conscious participation among the faithful. With further refinement in articulating the methodological details, particularly the relationship between the qualitative and quantitative components, and providing more context for the broader set of hypotheses, this research holds the potential to significantly contribute to an understanding of religious behavior and engagement within the Catholic Church.

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