sacred meal
Ritual religious feast
A sacred meal is food consumed as part of religious ritual or spiritual practice.
The term covers communion bread and wine, Passover seders, ceremonial feasts, and offerings shared with deities or ancestors.
What distinguishes a sacred meal from ordinary eating is the belief that the act carries spiritual significance—nourishment for the soul as well as the body.
- communionProfound shared closeness
- breadLeavened flour product
- blood of ChristEucharistic wine after transubstantiation
- wineFermented grape beverage
- altarSacred ritual table
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- feastsbanquet, wedding feast, thanksgiving feast, thanksgiving dinner, Easter feast
- ritualsritual, rite, ceremony, blessing, prayer
- Shared Mealspotluck, feast, banquet, dinner party, family dinner
- CommunionHoly Communion, Lord's Supper, Eucharist, bread and wine, blood of Christ
- pilgrimage ritescircumambulation, prostration, ritual bathing, ritual washing, kora
- EucharistHoly Communion, bread and wine, Real Presence, communion wafer, communion wine
sacred mealTV dinner
Packaged frozen meal
quick bite · snacking · potluck · picnic · midnight snack
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