The sacred text of Christianity is the Bible and its dissemination throughout the world has been key to the spread of the Christian message. The Bible is divided into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament. This difference is related to the before and after the arrival of Jesus Christ. One of the fundamental episodes of the New Testament is the story of the passage of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. This event is more than a biblical episode, since it constitutes an essential aspect of the Christian liturgy.
Biblical scholars agree that the episode of the Last Supper is a determining factor in the celebration of the Christian Eucharist. During the last supper, the twelve apostles eat bread and wine and these elements symbolize the body and blood of Jesus Christ, a ritual that can be observed in all the masses celebrated when the priest eats the consecrated host that symbolizes bread and drinks a small chalice.
Christians are mandated to celebrate the Memorial of Christ's death, which is also called “the Lord's Supper” (1 Corinthians 11:20).
During the year 33 of our era, Jesus Christ constituted this celebration on the night of the Jewish Passover. Passover was a festival that took place once a year, on Nisan 14 (the Jewish calendar month). Apparently, the Jews calculated the date of the vernal equinox, that is, from the day when there are approximately twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness. The month of Nisan began when the new moon closest to the vernal equinox could be seen for the first time. Easter Day began fourteen days later, after sunset.
There are those who believe that Jesus really turned the bread into his flesh and the wine into his blood. However, Jesus' body was still complete when he offered the bread. Can it then be said that the apostles ate the flesh of Jesus and drank his blood? No, that would have been an act of cannibalism and a violation of God's law (Genesis 9: 3, 4, Leviticus 17:10). According to Luke 22:20, Jesus said: "This cup signifies the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which will be shed in your name." Did the cup really become "the new covenant"? That is impossible, because a pact is an agreement; It is not a material object.
Therefore, bread and wine are only symbols. The bread represents the perfect body of Christ.
