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29 Why are bread and wine used during the Eucharistic Banquet? Bread and wine are used because this is what Jesus did at the Last Supper on Holy Thursday. The Church cannot change what Christ chose to do but for two thousand years has respected it and will continue to respect it until the end of time. 30 Do the bread and wine have a particular significance? Certainly, the bread and wine have a particular meaning. In fact: Bread and wine are food, they give us nourishment: this helps us to understand that, in the same way as our bodies need to be fed constantly, so too our spiritual lives needs to be nourished with the food that Jesus gives us: his Body and his Blood. Besides, bread and wine, as the priest says during the Offertory of the Holy Mass, are those things that earth has given and human hands have made. For this reason the whole of creation is present, synthesized in the bread and wine, and participates in this mystery of transubstantiation in the Body and Blood of Christ. The bread, which is made from many grains of wheat, and the wine, which is made from many grapes, both remind us that this is also a great event of unity: the process of making bread from all the grains of wheat and making wine from all the grapes are the fruit of a union, unification, a communion. All this shows that we too who take part in the Eucharistic Banquet, though many, 109