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The Eucharist or Communion or The Lord's Supper, is the rite that Christians perform in fulfillment of Jesus' instruction, recorded in the New Testament, to do in memory of him what he did at his Last Supper.
The Holy Eucharist is the oldest experience of Christian worship as well as the most distinctive.
Eucharist comes from the Greek word εὐχαριστία (transliterated, " eucharistia"), which means thanksgiving. In a particular sense, the word describes the most important form of the Church's attitude toward all of life.
The origin of the Eucharist is
traced to the Last Supper at which Christ instructed His disciples to offer
bread and wine in His memory. The Eucharist is the most distinctive event of
Christian worship because in it the Church gathers to remember and celebrate
the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ and, thereby, to participate in
the mystery of Salvation. The Eucharist, the principal sacrament mystery of the Church, is not so much a text to be studied, but rather an experience of communion with the Living God in which prayer , music, gestures, the material creation, art and architecture come into full orchestration.
The Eucharist is a celebration of faith which touches not only the mind but
also the emotions and the senses.
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The
word "Eucharist" is also applied to the consecrated bread and wine
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