Quotes About Sacred meal

Mithraism predated Christianity yet bore uncanny similarities. Mithra's birthday was celebrated on December 25. The god's worship involved baptism and the consumption of a sacred meal of bread and wine. Mithra also had twelve disciples, held Sunday sacred, and described a heaven and a hell. Upon his death, Mithra was also buried in a tomb, only to rise again in three days.

This [the Lord's Supper] is a strange meal indeed, in which Jesus is the host and also the guest and also the food.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

The Lord's Supper is a gift to you. The Lord's Supper is a sacrament,4 not a sacrifice.5

To share in this sacred meal was so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society that fragments of the broken bread were taken round to any who were absent through illness or imprisonment.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ëI have invited the people.í” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.

And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”

For I tell you that I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”