CCC 1329

The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.¹⁴¹ Cf. 1 Cor 11:20; Rev 19:9. The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,¹⁴² Cf. Mt 14:19; 15:36; Mk 8:6, 19. above all at the Last Supper.¹⁴³ Cf. Mt 26:26; 1 Cor 11:24. It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection,¹⁴⁴ Cf. Lk 24:13-35. and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies;¹⁴⁵ Cf. Acts 2:42, 46; 20:7, 11. by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him.¹⁴⁶ Cf. 1 Cor 10:16-17. The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.¹⁴⁷ Cf. 1 Cor 11:17-34.