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The Lord’s Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord
took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates
the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.141
The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when
as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,142 above
all at the Last Supper.143 It is by this action that his disciples will
recognize him after his Resurrection,144 and it is this expression that
the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic
assemblies;145 by doing so they signified that all who eat the one
broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in
him.146
The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid
the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.147
- SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
- Article 3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
- II. What is This Sacrament Called?
- Article 3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
- CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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