Eucharist Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Breaking of bread==== The phrase {{lang|grc|κλάσις τοῦ ἄρτου}} ({{transliteration|grc|klasis tou artou}}, 'breaking of the bread'; in later liturgical Greek also {{lang|grc|ἀρτοκλασία}} {{transliteration|grc|artoklasia}}) appears in various related forms five times in the New Testament<ref>{{Bibleref2|Luke|24:35}}; {{Bibleref2|Acts|2:42}}, {{bibleref2-nb|Acts|2:46}}, {{bibleref2-nb|Acts|20:7}} and {{bibleref2-nb|Acts|20:11}}</ref> in contexts which, according to some, may refer to the celebration of the Eucharist, in either closer or symbolically more distant reference to the Last Supper.<ref>{{cite book |last=Richardson |first=Alan |title=Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament |year=1958 |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontoth00rich |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=[[SCM Press]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/introductiontoth00rich/page/364 364]}}</ref> This term is used by the [[Plymouth Brethren]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church; Nature| editor1-last=Cross| editor1-first=F. L.|editor2-last=Livingstone| editor2-first=E. A.| year=1974| title=Plymouth Brethren| bibcode=1987Natur.329..578B| last1=Bayne| first1=Brian L.| volume=329| page=578 | doi=10.1038/329578b0| pmid=3309679| issue=6140| publisher=Oxford University Press| doi-access=free}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page