Eucharist

/ˈjukərəst/

/ˈjukərɪst/

Other forms: Eucharists

The Eucharist is a Christian religious service that involves consecrated bread and wine. Another name for the Eucharist is Holy Communion.

Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and a few other Christian faiths use the term Eucharist for this rite, while many denominations might call it "Communion" or "the Lord's Supper." The word is derived from the Greek eukharistia, "thanksgiving, gratitude." The ritual comes from the New Testament story of the Last Supper, and Eucharist can refer to the sacrament — or to the bread and wine themselves, which represent (or in some faiths, transform into) the body and blood of Jesus.

Definitions of Eucharist

1. noun

   a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
   synonyms: Eucharistic liturgy, Holy Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, Lord's Supper, sacrament of the Eucharist

   type of:

   sacrament

   a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction