The Eucharist (), also called Holy Communion, the Sacrament of the Altar, the Blessed Sacrament, the Lord's Supper, and other names, is a Christian sacrament or ordinance.

The expression The Lord's Supper, derived from St. Paul's usage in, may have originally referred to the Agape feast, the shared communal meal with which the Eucharist was originally associated.

Among Open assemblies, also termed Plymouth Brethren, the Eucharist is more commonly called the Breaking of Bread or the Lord's Supper.

The Eucharist they also call the Breaking of Bread or the Lord's Supper.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

Therefore, the celebration of the Eucharist is the experience of the Lord's triumph over sin.

The Passover festival, for example, was replaced by the Lord's Supper ( or Eucharist ).

In the Western Catholic Church, " Sabbath " is a synonym of " Lord's Day " ( Sunday ), which is kept in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ, and celebrated with the Eucharist ( Catholic Catechism 2177 ).

Moreover, The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as " Holy Communion " or " The Lord's Supper ".

Apart from " Eucharist " others are the " Lord's Supper ", the " Breaking of Bread ", the " Eucharistic assembly ( synaxis )", the " memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection ", the " Holy Sacrifice ", the " Holy and Divine Liturgy " and " Holy Communion ".

More frequently, the term used is either " Holy Communion ," " Holy Eucharist ," or " the Lord's Supper.

The Eucharist, consecrated at the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday is distributed at this service.

" With the Orthodox Churches, this communion is so profound that it lacks little to attain the fullness that would permit a common celebration of the Lord's Eucharist " Catechism of the Catholic Church ( 838 ).

* joint celebration of the Lord's Supper / Holy Communion / Eucharist ( these churches practice open communion )

Conservative Lutherans are sometimes labeled Donatist by liberal Lutherans, as a reference to their doctrine of church-fellowship and position that churches which deny that Jesus ’ true Body and true Blood are eaten during the Eucharist do not celebrate a valid Lord's Supper.

* The " two great and necessary " sacraments are Baptism and the Eucharist ( also called Holy Communion and the Lord's Supper ).

The ritual as interpreted in light of such ideas does not at all bring about salvation, nor does its performance bring about the forgiveness of sins ; the forgiveness which the believer has received by faith is merely pictured, not effectively applied, by baptism ; salvation and participation in Christ is memorialized (' this do in remembrance of me ' in the Lord's Supper and baptism picturing a Christian's rebirth as death to sin and alive in Christ ), not imparted, by the Eucharist.

The Mass of the Lord's Supper commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his Twelve Apostles, " the institution of the Eucharist, the institution of the priesthood, and the commandment of brotherly love that Jesus gave after washing the feet of his disciples.

( If there is no Communion, i. e., the Eucharist, the service concludes with the Lord's Prayer, an optional Offering, the Blessing and a moment of silent prayer )

The ELCA encourages its churches to practice the Eucharist at all services, although some churches alternate between non-communion services with those containing the Lord's Supper.

In Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Lutheranism and some other Christian denominations, a chalice is a standing cup used to hold sacramental wine during the Eucharist ( also called the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion ).

Closed communion is the practice of restricting the serving of the elements of Holy Communion ( also called Eucharist, The Lord's Supper ) to those who are members of a particular church, denomination, sect, or congregation.

It is similar in some ways, but different in others to the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, or communion or the Lord's Supper in other Christian denominations.

The institution of the Eucharist has been a key theme in the depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art, as in this 19th-century Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Bouveret painting.

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

* Origin of the Eucharist ( The Last Supper )

Unlike more traditional views of the Last Supper, he depicts Heaven opening up into the room, and the angels looking on in awe, per the old Catholic maxim that " If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy the Eucharist.

According to Western Christian belief, matzah was the bread used by Jesus in the Last Supper as there he was celebrating Passover ; Communion wafers used by Roman Catholics ( as well as in some Protestant traditions ) for the Eucharist are flat.

Scholars have looked to the Last Supper as the source of early Christian Eucharist traditions.

As the scriptural support required by their sola scriptura position, Protestants who believe that in the Eucharist the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ turn to the words of Jesus himself at his Last Supper, as reported in the Synoptic Gospels and Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians.

Roman Catholic and some Protestant Christians consume unleavened bread during the Christian liturgy when they celebrate the Eucharist, a rite derived from the narrative of the Last Supper when Jesus broke bread with his disciples, perhaps during a Passover Seder.

The Orthodox Church sees the celebration of the Eucharist as a continuation, rather than a reenactment, of the Last Supper, as Fr.

More significant still is the change in the use of sacrificial language: for Paul the Eucharist is a receiving of gifts from God, the Christian sacrifice is the offering of our bodies ( Romans 12 ).< Barrett, C. K.

Christian Scientists celebrate the sacraments of baptism and Eucharist in an entirely non-material way.

Consubstantiation is a theological doctrine that ( like Transubstantiation ) attempts to describe the nature of the Christian Eucharist in concrete metaphysical terms.

No special ceremonial was devised to celebrate Christian marriage — despite the fact that the Church had produced liturgies to celebrate the Eucharist, Baptism and Confirmation.

Many Christian denominations classify the Eucharist as a sacrament.

Christian denominations differ in their understanding of whether they may receive the Eucharist with those with whom they are not in full communion.

Justin's statements in his First Apology are some of the earliest Christian expressions on the Eucharist.

Accordingly, " the celebration of the Eucharist as Viaticum is the sacrament proper to the dying Christian ".

In 1880, the general conference included in the Discipline a broad statement which included, “ Temperance is a Christian virtue, Scripturally enjoined .” Due to the temperate stance of the church, the practice of Eucharist was altered — to this day, Methodist churches most commonly use grape juice symbolically during Communion rather than wine.

Central to the Christian liturgy is the celebration of the Eucharist or " Holy Communion ".

Breaking bread may refer to Christian fellowship, agape feasts, or Eucharist ( cf.

The Eucharist, which " is recorded as celebrated by the early Christian community at Jerusalem and by St. Paul on his visit to Troas ", is held to have been instituted by Christ.

During the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation was heavily criticised as an Aristotelian " pseudo-philosophy " imported into Christian teaching and jettisoned in favor of Martin Luther's doctrine of sacramental union, or in favor, per Huldrych Zwingli, of the Eucharist as memorial.

The belief that the Eucharist conveyed to the believer the body and blood of Christ appears to have been widespread from an early date, and the elements were commonly referred to as the body and the blood by early Christian writers.

The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, " Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the Name of the Lord ," for it was in reference to this that the Lord said, " Do not give that which is holy to dogs.

Other fourth-century Christian writers say that in the Eucharist there occurs a " change ", " transelementation ", " transformation ", " transposing ", " alteration " of the bread into the body of Christ.

They see nothing in Scripture that in any way contradicts this age-old Christian belief that the reality beneath the visible signs in the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ and no longer bread and wine.

The drink is also used in Christian Eucharist ceremonies and the Jewish Kiddush.