Last Supper Coptic Icon Plaque

When Catholics participate in the Eucharist at Mass, they partake of an ancient repast that has its roots in Jesus’s last meal. Knowingly or not, they also commemorate the very beginnings of Christianity – not to mention the birth of the priesthood. 

In the New Testament, the apostles give eyewitness testimony that Jesus used the occasion of the Passover feast to transform bread and wine into His body and blood.