bread and wine
Body and blood
Bread and wine are the elements of Christian communion, representing—or in Catholic doctrine, becoming—the body and blood of Christ.
The phrase evokes the Eucharist and the Last Supper: They shared bread and wine together.
Outside religious contexts, it suggests simple hospitality or basic sustenance.
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- communionProfound shared closeness
- chaliceOrnate ritual drinking vessel
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
- blood of ChristEucharistic wine after transubstantiation
sacrament · grain · pairing · consecration · covenant · Passover · altar · hospitality · unity · loaves and fishes · lamb · agape · sacrifice · feast · body · host · abundance · fermentation
- Biblical Foodsmanna, figs, grapes, olives, pomegranates
- CommunionHoly Communion, Lord's Supper, Eucharist, sacrament, blood of Christ
- sacramentsbaptism, christening, confirmation, communion, matrimony
- EucharistBlessed Sacrament, Holy Communion, Real Presence, communion wafer, blood of Christ
- Church Ritesbaptizing, Holy Communion, christening, Lord's Supper, adult baptism
- Christian Symbolscross, crucifix, fish symbol, INRI, Alpha Omega
symbolic meaning (body and blood of christ)
bread and winethirty pieces of silver
Biblical betrayal payment
communion elements vs. forbidden/impure substances
bread and wineforbidden fruit
Enticing thing that's prohibited