Eucharist

The Eucharist is the rite that Christians perform in fulfillment of Jesus's instruction, as recounted in the New Testament (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:24-25), to do in memory of him what at his Last Supper he did when he gave his disciples bread, saying: "This is my body", and wine saying:"This is my blood." The rite is classified as one of the Christian sacraments. The word Eucharist is also applied to the bread and wine consecrated in the course of the rite and in which Christians in general recognize a special presence of Christ, though they differ about the mode, locus and time of that presence.

External links

• Do This; Remember Me!, a 21st century hymn text telling the Upper Room story
• The Duty of Constant Communion by John Wesley
• This Holy Mystery: A United Methodist Understanding of Holy Communion
• Do This!: The Eucharist as a Key to Pastoral Care & Church Renewal
• Eucharist in Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Ordinary of the Sacred Liturgy according to the Roman Rite, Missal of 1962
• The Ordinary...according to the Roman Rite, Missal of 1962 alternate source.
• Church Fathers, citations concerning the Holy Eucharist.
• Holy Eucharist from The Orthodox Faith by Fr Thomas Hopko, online essay from the website of the Orthodox Church in America.
• The Priest's Service Book Orthodox Divine Liturgy.
• The Lord's Supper - by Ralph Waldo Emerson, rejecting the Lord's supper as a perpetual rite.
• A Short Introduction to Holy Communion and Celiac Sprue Disease from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• a Baptist viewpoint
• a Church of Christ viewpoint
• a Mennonite viewpoint
• a Reformed (Presbyterian) viewpoint
• The Lord's Supper: Four Views by Joe Slowiaczek
• Four Views of the Lord's Supper - discusses transubstantiation, consubstantiation, spiritual presence, and symbolism (from spiritual presence point of view)
• Pilgram Marpeck's defense of continuing to practice Lord's Supper