altar bread
Eucharistic wafer disk
Altar bread is the bread used in Christian Eucharist or Communion services.
In Western churches, it typically takes the form of thin, unleavened wafers; Eastern Orthodox traditions use leavened bread.
The bread is consecrated during the service and, according to various Christian doctrines, becomes or represents the body of Christ.
Thin crisp disk
- hostOne receiving guests
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
- communionProfound shared closeness
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
mass · liturgy · chalice · paten · tabernacle · corporal · monstrance · sacrament
Not raised by fermentation
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- flourMilled grain powder
- waferThin crisp disk
- matzoYeastless Passover cracker
thin · round · white · stamped · baked · pure · unfermented · flatbread
Quantity of matter
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- offertoryService donation period
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- vestmentCeremonial religious garment
incense · sanctuary · sacristy · missal · rubric · procession · genuflection · benediction
Dedicating to sacred purpose
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
veneration · blessedness · divinity · purity · sacredness · hallowed · blessed · sanctified
wafer
Thin crisp disk
- hostOne receiving guests
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
- communionProfound shared closeness
consecration · mass · liturgy · chalice · paten · tabernacle · corporal · monstrance · sacrament · oblation
unleavened
Not raised by fermentation
matzo · thin · round · white · stamped · baked · pure · unfermented · flatbread · disklike
mass
Quantity of matter
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- offertoryService donation period
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
vestment · incense · sanctuary · sacristy · missal · rubric · procession · genuflection · benediction · lavabo
consecration
Dedicating to sacred purpose
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
devotion · veneration · blessedness · divinity · purity · sacredness · hallowed · blessed · sanctified · divine presence
- church itemscrucifix, monstrance, cruets, paten, tabernacle
- CommunionHoly Communion, Lord's Supper, Eucharist, sacrament, blood of Christ
- offeringsburnt offering, sin offering, peace offering, oblations, food offerings
- ritual breadcommunion wafer, shewbread, showbread, wafer, matzah
- ritual foodscommunion wafer, communion wine, communion wafers, sacramental wine, seder
- altar itemscorporal, tabernacle, paten, monstrance, cruet
altar breaddaily bread
Essential means of living
street food · sandwich bread · junk food · fast food · snack food
altar breadsandwich bread
Loaf sold pre-sliced
sliced bread · baguette · sourdough · white bread · whole wheat bread