The Eucharist is a sacrament and a sacrifice. In the Holy Eucharist, in the symbols of bread and wine, the Lord Christ is contained, offered, and received. The Eucharist goes beyond being a sacrament. It represents the body and blood of Christ: to God, Himself, made man. Jesus gave the Eucharist for the first time as part of the Last Supper, serving the twelve apostles. Even before Jesus instituted the Eucharist for the first time, he promised he was going to give to his body for us. Jesus said to them, 'Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life everlasting and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, abides in me and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and as I live because of the Father, so he who eats me, he also shall live because of me. This is the bread that has come down from heaven; not as your fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread shall live forever. (John 6:48-59) When Jesus made this promise, it conveyed how much Jesus cared about the world and about his father's most important creation, humans. Jesus knew that humans were sinning and needed salvation, and his body and blood were the only sacrifices that could save the human race from sin.
             On the day before Jesus' death, he celebrated the feast of Passover with the twelve apostles. It was the day Jesus taught the Golden Rule, the day he washed his apostles' feet, and the day one of his apostles betrayed him. Most significant of all, it was the day he gave his body and blood for us. After the feast Jesus got up, wrapped a towel around his waist, and began washing Simon Peter's feet. Simon Peter did not want Jesus to wash his feet, but Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with ...