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The '''Eucharist ''' (or '''Holy Communion ''' or '''The Lord's Supper''') refers to the memorial service that [[Christian]]s perform in fulfillment of [[Jesus]]' instruction, instructions at his [[Last Supper]] recorded in the [[New Testament]] to do in memory of him what . On the night before he did at his [[Last Supper]]. was crucified, Jesus gave his disciples bread, saying "This is my body," and wine, saying "This is my blood". '''Holy Communion''' is the re-enactment of that event." Different Christian denominations view Holy Communion somewhat differently, with most Protestants believing that is symbolic only, whereas Roman Catholicism teaches that the bread and wine is actually transforms and becomes the body and blood of Christ.

Some of the commonly used names for Holy Communion areinclude: 1. # Eucharist2. # Communion3. # Holy Communion4. # The Lord's Supper

====Roman Catholicism/Eastern Orthodoxy/Oriental Orthodoxy====

In Roman Catholic teaching, the Scripture passages regarding the Last Supper are understood literally. Catholics have a literal view of Holy Communion. They typically call Holy Communion "the Eucharist.". The official teaching of the Roman Catholics believe in a form of theology called transubstantiation. This basically means that they believe Catholic Church is that when the bishop or priest consecrates the Eucharist, the host bread and wine literally become Jesus' bodyand blood in their very being ("substance"), bloodwhile their scientifically-testable physical properties ("accidents") remain the same. This teaching is known as [[transubstantiation]], because the substances of the bread and wine are transformed. The eastern Churches (Eastern, soulOriental, and divinityAssyrian Orthodox) also teach this - Eastern Orthodox refer to it not as transubstantiation, however, but as ''metousiosis''.

====Protestant=Lutheranism=====

Most Protestants Lutherans typically believe Holy Communion to be symbolicin the theology called ''consubstantiation''. In other words, they do not hold to Consubstantiation is the Catholic belief of transubstantiation or the Lutheran belief of consubstantiation but instead believe that when the cracker bread and wine are consecrated, the juice or bread and wine remain but Jesus' body and blood are also literally present. This is merely symbolic contrasted with the Catholic/Orthodox belief, where the substances of Jesusbread and wine cease to exist entirely, and only Christ' s body and bloodare present after the consecration. Also contrasting with this theology is the mainline Protestant view, which holds that Jesus is not present in a special sense at all during Holy Communion - the bread and wine are pure symbols only.

=====Lutheranism=Mainline Protestant====

Lutherans typically Most Protestants believe in the theology called consubstantiationHoly Communion to be purely symbolic. Consubstantiation is In other words, they do not hold to the Catholic/Orthodox belief that when of transubstantiation/metousiosis or the host and wine are consecrated Lutheran belief of consubstantiation, but instead believe that the bread and wine remain but /juice merely represent Jesus' body and blood are also literally present.

===Eastern OrthodoxLiturgy===

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