Lord's Supper

n (Ecclesiastical Terms) the Lord's Supper another term for Holy Communion [from I Corinthians 11:20]

Lord's′ Sup′per

n.
the, 1. Eucharist. 2. Last Supper.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Lord's Supper - a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wineEucharist, Eucharistic liturgy, Holy Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, sacrament of the Eucharistsacrament - 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 unctionOffertory - the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to GodCommunion, Holy Communion, manduction, sacramental manduction - the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation"
	2.	Lord's Supper - the traditional Passover supper of Jesus with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixionLast SupperPassover supper, Seder - (Judaism) the ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover

Lord's Supper

1. Another term for the Last Supper, the last meal that Jesus shared with his disciples before his crucifixion, which some Christians believe instituted the sacrament of Eucharist. We celebrate the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday.2. The sacrament of Eucharist. Now that you've made your First Holy Communion, you can receive the Lord's Supper during Mass.See also: supper

Lord's Supper

Lord's Supper,

Protestant rite commemorating the Last Supper. In the ReformationReformation,
religious revolution that took place in Western Europe in the 16th cent. It arose from objections to doctrines and practices in the medieval church (see Roman Catholic Church) and ultimately led to the freedom of dissent (see Protestantism).
..... Click the link for more information. the leaders generally rejected the traditional belief in the sacrament as a sacrifice and as an invisible miracle of the actual changing of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ (transubstantiation) but retained the belief in it as mystically uniting the believers with Christ and with one another. The Lutherans held that there is a change by which the body and blood of Christ join with the bread and wine; this principle (consubstantiation) was rejected by Huldreich Zwingli who, in a controversy over the sacrament, held that the bread and wine were only symbolic. Calvinists, on the other hand, maintained the spiritual, but not the real presence of Christ in the sacrament. The Church of England affirmed the real presence but denied transubstantiation. However, since the Oxford Movement, Anglicans tend to accept either transubstantiation or the Calvinist interpretation. Lutheran and Anglican communion services follow the Roman Catholic MassMass,
religious service of the Roman Catholic Church, which has as its central act the performance of the sacrament of the Eucharist. It is based on the ancient Latin liturgy of the city of Rome, now used in most, but not all, Roman Catholic churches. The term Mass [Lat.
..... Click the link for more information. in outline, although the service books have eliminated references to a sacrifice and have shortened the service. Anglicans hold to Western tradition in using unleavened bread. Most Protestant churches use raised bread; many use unfermented grape juice instead of wine. Communion in which the laity receive only the bread is rejected by Protestants; this was a crucial point with the Hussites. Lutherans and Anglicans (especially since the Oxford Movement) celebrate communion much more frequently than most other Protestant churches. The Quakers are one of the few Protestant groups to reject the sacrament entirely.

Lord's Supper

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Synonyms for Lord's Supper

noun a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

Synonyms

Eucharist
Eucharistic liturgy
Holy Eucharist
Holy Sacrament
Liturgy
sacrament of the Eucharist

Related Words

sacrament
Offertory
Communion
Holy Communion
manduction
sacramental manduction

noun the traditional Passover supper of Jesus with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion

Synonyms

Last Supper

Related Words

Passover supper
Seder