Eucharist

The Eucharist ( ; from , ), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the '''Lord's Supper''', is a Christian rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others. Christians believe that the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, the night before his crucifixion, giving his disciples bread and wine. Passages in the New Testament state that he commanded them to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the cup of wine as "the blood of my covenant, which is poured out for many". According to the synoptic Gospels, this

thumb|Text of the Sanctus in an 11th-century manuscriptThe Sanctus (, "Holy") is a hymn in Christian liturgy. It may also be called the epinikios hymnos (, "Hymn of Victory") when referring to the Greek rendition and parts of it are sometimes called "Benedictus". Tersanctus (Latin: "Thrice Holy") is another, rarer name for the Sanctus. The same name is sometimes used for the Trisagion.

part of liturgy

thumb|Collection boxes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Simon Stock, Kensington, London thumb|Collection bag used in Fru Alstad Church The offertory (from Medieval Latin offertorium and Late Latin offerre) is the part of a Eucharistic service when the bread and wine for use in the service are ceremonially placed on the altar.

belief that Jesus Christ is present in the Eucharist not merely symbolically or metaphorically

Consubstantiation is a Christian theological doctrine that (like transubstantiation) describes the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It holds that during the sacrament, the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present alongside the substance of the bread and wine, which remain present. It was part of the doctrines of Lollardy, and considered a heresy by the Catholic Church. It was later championed by Edward Pusey of the Oxford Movement, and is therefore held by many high church Anglicans, seemingly contrary to the Black Rubric of the Book of Common Prayer. The Irvingian Churc

in Chritianity, liturgical statement in which the Church refers to the memorial character of the Eucharist

liturgical term

Byzantine Rite liturgical service on the weekdays of Great Lent

communal meal shared among Christians

religious holiday for Jehovah's Witnesses

The term eulogia (, eulogía), Greek for "a blessing", has been applied in ecclesiastical usage to "a blessed object". It was occasionally used in early times to signify the Holy Eucharist, and in this sense is especially frequent in the writings of St. Cyril of Alexandria. The origin of this use is doubtless to be found in the words of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 10:16); to poterion tes eulogias ho eulogoumen. But the more general use is for such objects as bread, wine etc., which it was customary to distribute after the celebration of the Divine Mysteries. Bread so blessed, we learn from St. Augu

Eucharist liturgies sometimes using the phase

Instruction on the proper way to celebrate Mass in the Roman Rite and others

Impanation (Latin: impanatio, "embodied in bread") is a high medieval theory of the real presence of the body of Jesus Christ in the consecrated bread of the Eucharist that does not imply a change in the substance of either the bread or the body. This doctrine, apparently patterned after Christ's Incarnation (God is made flesh in the Person of Jesus Christ), is the assertion that "God is made bread" in the Eucharist. Christ's divine attributes are shared by the eucharistic bread via his body. This view is similar but not identical to the theory of consubstantiation associated with Lollardy. It

ceremonial breaking of the consecrated bread during the Eucharistic rite

Comparison of text and rubrics

Library of Congress subject Heading

in Christianity, reception of both the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist

Protestant Christian religious practise

anaphora prayer sometimes used in Roman Catholic liturgies

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Eucharist in East Syriac Christianity

thumb|Limoges enamel dove, [[Walters Art Museum]]

religious history

branch of Christian theology studying the Lord's Supper