Eucharist

The Eucharist /ˈjuːkərɪst/ (also called Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, and other names) is a rite considered by most Christian churches to be a sacrament. According to the New Testament, it was instituted by Jesus Christ during his Last Supper. Giving his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the wine as "my blood". Through the Eucharistic celebration Christians remember Christ's sacrifice of himself once and for all on the cross. Uniquely, in the one prayer given to posterity by Jesus, the Lord's Prayer, the word epiousios -- which does not exist elsewhere in Classical Greek literature -- has been linguistically parsed to mean "super-substantial," and most literally interpreted as a reference to the Bread of Life, the Eucharist.