The last week before Easter in the Christian world is called Holy Week. This is a time of special fasting and recollections of the events of the last days of the earthly life of Jesus Christ. Good Thursday is special for Orthodox people. On this day, believers try to receive communion.
On Holy Great Thursday of Holy Week, the Orthodox Church recalls the establishment of the sacrament of communion by the Lord Jesus Christ. Communion is still necessary for every Christian believer. This sacrament is still performed in all Orthodox churches during the divine liturgy.
The Gospels tell us that on the Thursday before the Passover, Christ decided to celebrate with his disciples in the same house. This was the Jewish tradition of slaughtering the Passover lamb in memory of God's deliverance of the Jewish people from the slavery of the pharaoh, as well as the preservation of life by the Israeli first-born during the last tenth execution of the Egyptian.
During the Easter supper, Christ took the bread in his hands, broke it and offered it to the disciples, saying that it was His Body. Then the Lord blessed the cup of wine with the words that it is His Blood. The apostles tasted the Body and Blood of God. That is how the first sacrament of communion according to the teachings of the Orthodox Church happened. Christ commanded us to perform this sacrament in remembrance of Him. Since then, Good Thursday has been the day of the establishment of the Eucharist (communion), and believers on this day seek to begin the sacrament that is saving for them.
It should be noted that a miracle is performed in the sacrament of communion. Believers, under the guise of bread and wine, partake of the real blood and real body of Christ. This is the teaching of the Orthodox Church on the sacrament.
