Holy Communion has nothing to do with the last supper. Wrong teaching by many

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Eucharist , also known as communion is to celebrate Jesus passion in death.

The bread was meant to symbolize Christ’s crucified body, while the wine was meant to symbolize Christ’s blood. Christians believe that Christ’s death on the cross is the means by which salvation is brought to the human race. Therefore, his death on the cross is imbibed with spiritual symbolism.

It’s very poor teaching of leaders who allow christians to think it’s to do with the Last Supper.
 
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Well I would say it’s linked with the last supper in so far as the last supper was like a holy communion, and the first ever holy communion.
 
When we take the Bread and Wine we celebrate his death and suffering. Nothing to do with the last supper is my own understanding ?
 
We celebrate his death and suffering? Not sure I have ever looked at it that way.
 
the last supper is when Christ instituted the sacrament, isn’t it? so wouldn’t it be connected?
 
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Eucharist , also known as communion is to celebrate Jesus passion in death.
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Umm… no? The Eucharist memorializes Jesus’ death and resurrection.
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The bread was meant to symbolize Christ’s crucified body, while the wine was meant to symbolize Christ’s blood.
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Not “symbolize” – “is”.
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It’s very poor teaching of leaders who allow christians to think it’s to do with the Last Supper.
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The Last Supper was the first celebration of the Eucharist. It’s poor teaching of leaders who do not make this connection.
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When we take the Bread and Wine we celebrate his death and suffering.
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We don’t take “bread and wine”; we take the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ.

And, we’re not celebrating “death and suffering”, so much as we’re commemorating and re-presenting the sacrifice He made to His Father.
 
The last supper was basically the beginning of the first holy communion, and I suppose the only time that the bread and wine were not the actual body and blood of Christ, as we was still with them physically during this.

So that would be the only time and bread and wine ‘symbolised’ the body and blood of Christ?
 
The Last Supper was the First Mass. Christ gave his apostles his flesh to eat and his blood to drink.
When we attend Mass and receive the Eucharist we are doing as the apostles did. We eat his flesh. We drink his blood.
 
englands123 said:
Eucharist , also known as communion is to celebrate Jesus passion in death.

The bread was meant to symbolize Christ’s crucified body, while the wine was meant to symbolize Christ’s blood. Christians believe that Christ’s death on the cross is the means by which salvation is brought to the human race. Therefore, his death on the cross is imbibed with spiritual symbolism.

It’s very poor teaching of leaders who allow christians to think it’s to do with the Last Supper.
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The apostolic Fathers would disagree with you…

http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/father/fathers.htm
 
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The Last Supper was the First Mass. Christ gave his apostles his flesh to eat and his blood to drink.
When we attend Mass and receive the Eucharist we are doing as the apostles did. We eat his flesh. We drink his blood.
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Exactly. The Eucharist has everything to do with the Last Supper. See Matt 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:15-20, and 1 Cor 11:23-25.
 
Holy Communion has nothing to do with the last supper.

What happened at Calvary is why we take communion ?
 
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Holy Communion has nothing to do with the last supper.

What happened at Calvary is why we take communion ?
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you are treating this as an “either/or” situation when it should be thought of more of a “both/and” you cannot separate the institution of the Eucharist when Jesus told us to “do this in remembrance of me” from communion.
 
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But if we ask young christians what the Holy Communion means to them.

Many will say it’s to do with the Last Supper , which is not correct.
 
I’m somewhat sympathetic with the OP. The way Mass has often been offered or taught for the last 50 years has implied it is only a meal, or even a community building exercise with little connection to Calvary.

But don’t go to the opposite extreme.
 
I get the point the OP is going for–the Last Supper was not simply a communal meal that is an end in itself. But rather than saying the Eucharistic sacrifice has nothing to do with the Last Supper, the point is that the Last Supper is tied to the Lord’s passion and death–it is where Christ instituted and offered said sacrifice, and modeled what His Church would do always and everywhere. You can’t separate it just as you can’t separate every single Eucharistic sacrifice offered in the Church.

The key is not to ignore the Last Supper, but to understand it’s true significance.
 
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