Last Supper

The average person uses a toilet an estimated 2,500 times each year (or six to eight times daily). As one of humankind’s most efficient and essential forms of maintaining sanitation and preventing disease, the flushing toilet was a byproduct of a special period in human history: the Renaissance. Including the influential invention of the flushing toilet, following the war-stricken period of Medieval Europe, the Renaissance was a time of great-accelerated change that gave rise to new, previously unexplored concepts, such as alchemy and anatomy, and artistic innovation. Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, a piece of art dating back to the High Italian Renaissance, was an especially notable piece from this period. While it was a depiction of “The Last Supper of…

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world’s most famous paintings . Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath who adored multiple subject areas such as architecture, painting, music, literature etc. When The Last Supper was being created da Vinci used specific materials like tempera and oil plaster. The location of the painting is at Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan, Italy completed in 1498. The subject of the painting is about Christian iconography of two main ideas from the Gospel…

The people of Israel symbolically offered themselves to God, and God in return offer Himself, hence establishing a covenant and communion with His people. This for the Jews was a complete sacrifice. Jesus saw the paschal meal as such a communion sacrifice. It was this meal, with its essential sacrificial nuances, that Jesus established as the memorial of his paschal sacrifice. The Eucharist is essentially a meal. But a simple meal; rather a highly formalized ritual meal, a memorial of the…

The Holy Eucharist is the focal point in spiritual nourishment in the Catholic life. By deeply analysing the symbols utilized in the poster promoting the Eucharist we can receive and insight into the reason why the Eucharist is of such significance to the Catholic life. The Golden Chalice situated as the focal point of the poster represents the glass in which Jesus instituted his blood at the last supper to his disciples. The Chalice is a visual representation of the Last Supper. The Chalice…

living symbol of God, therefore seen as uniquely as a sacrament himself. This was noted in John’s gospel when Jesus said to his disciples “Who has seen me, has seen the Father” (John 14:9, NRSV). The Eucharist is a celebration and this celebration occurs over a meal. The Last Supper has been considered a particular type of meal; a Passover meal. For Jewish people, the Passover is one of three annual…

paper will provide a short history of the Eucharist and its foundations in the Jewish Passover; an understanding of the Eucharist as a memorial likened to Anzac day or Remembrance day; A theological understanding of how Christ’s real presence is found within the gifts of the bread and wine and how this applies to students today in terms of the gifts received at Eucharist. In this paper, all scriptural texts will be referenced from the New Revised Standard Version (1989). A concise history of…

Jesus to heal his son. Jesus tells him to believe and go home that his son is healed. Jesus feeds the 5,000 with five loaves and two fish, and he walks on water and heals a blind man with clay. Jesus says those who see have sin, but those who are blind have no sin. In 7:7, Jesus warns that people do not hate his messengers; they hate His message. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. The Jews are upset about the fact that Jesus clams to be the Son of the Father and come from heaven; therefore,…

in the light and truth of John’s gospels and the Synoptics before it. The light and truth is shown through the symbol of bread. John uses the symbolism in the passage as Jesus as the bread. In John 6:35, Jesus refers to himself as the bread of life, similar to what John uses throughout the Gospel. John’s symbolic writing proclaims Jesus the light and salvation when the Kingdom of God approaches. The important radical notion John’s writing portrays is the institution of the Eucharist. The…

The white garment symbolises the cleansing from all sin. The early Christians, wore white garments to signify their union with Christ. The priest wears the white garment during Mass, and throughout the blessing of the Eucharist, to signify his union with Christ. While he is blessing the Eucharist, the Priest is demonstrating to us, how Jesus, at the Last Supper, blessed the bread and wine. While blessing the bread and wine, the Priest becomes Jesus as he says the words, “Take and eat it, this is…

With around 2.18 billion followers in over 200 countries (Dimock), Christianity is one of the world’s top religions, and Leonardo da Vinci’s piece The Last Supper perfectly captures the essence of it. The story of the last supper is well known by more than just Christians, which is perhaps why the piece has become so beloved. This piece has impacted the world in nearly every area, and with incredible techniques, da Vinci literally creates a story within a picture. There is something beautiful…