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the ancient ritual of eating your god and calling it love
means A shared participation or deep fellowship, especially the Christian sacrament of bread and wine commemorating Christ's Last Supper.
from From Latin 'communio,' meaning a sharing or mutual participation, built from 'com-' (together) plus 'munus' (gift, duty, service) — the same 'munus' that gives us 'municipal' and 'remunerate.' At its root it describes people bound by a common obligation, a shared gift. The Christian sense, the holy meal of bread and wine, arrived through Church Latin and Old French and was firmly in English religious use by the medieval period.
- early slander
- Romans accused Christians of cannibalism over it
- real debate
- Catholics and Protestants split bloodily over literal versus symbolic
- wine swap
- many churches use grape juice, thanks to temperance reformers
- word root
- means with-union, a shared togetherness in Latin
- open or closed
- some churches gatekeep who may receive it
eucharist — christian sacrament practiced since jesus's last supper, central to catholic and orthodox liturgy
first holy communion — catholic initiation rite typically at age 7-8, marking a child's first reception of the eucharist
breaking of bread — early christian practice documented in acts 2:42, the apostolic form of communion in jerusalem