A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Questions about the Word, the Church and the Ordinances

133. Q. What is the Lord’s Supper?
          A. At the Lord’s Supper, the church eats bread and drinks wine to remember the sufferings and death of Christ.

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• Mark 14:22-24

  And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 

• 1 Corinthians 11:23-29
  

   For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is foryou. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 

  Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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