Lord's Supper
a term first used by St. Paul in I Cor. xi: 20, of a ceremonial ordinance observed in the Corinthian and doubtless in other churches. The night on which Jesus was betrayed, He took bread, blessed it, brake it, and gave it to His disciples to eat, with wine former in the Protestant view symbolizing His broken Body, the latter His shed Blood. (Matt. xxvi: 26-29; Mark xiv: 22-25; Luke xxii: 14-20). St. Luke records that Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (xxii: 19). St. Paul evidently considered that these words, addressed originally to the apostles, were designed for the Church of all ages. The term Lord's supper is used chiefly by those who hold the ordinance to be a commemorative one. See COMMUNION:
EUCHARIST: MASS.