Not exact matches
In Protestantism, the
bread and wine are
symbolic.
Both told of a Last Supper linked with the blood sacrifice whose
symbolic recreation by eating
bread and wine provided salvation for all worshippers.
Greater Love Has No Man The washing of the disciples» feet, then, is closely associated in meaning with Jesus»
symbolic action with the
bread and the
wine in the synoptic accounts of the last supper.
The essence of the consecrated
bread and wine is Christ, not just
symbolic of Him — after all, if it were just
symbolic, why would Christ pick eating
bread as the way to remember Him?