ABC created this version of "The Last Supper" to promote the return of Lost. And Entertainment Weekly offered the following explanation to their readers who may not be familiar with the Christian practice. Yuk-yuk-yuk . . . or just yuk?
FUN FACT! The Last Supper — Jesus’ final meal with his disciples before his crucifixion — is commemorated by Christians through the sacrament of Communion, the eating of bread and drinking of wine in remembrance of Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection. Some Christians believe that when you eat the bread and drink the wine, the stuff actually converts into the body and blood of Jesus during digestion, although their appearances remain the same. (Which explains the weird carpentry aftertaste.) This miraculous conversion is known by a fancy term: Transubstantiation, ”the conversion of one substance into another.” Example sentence: ”If Jack’s ”Jughead” plans works, he and the castaways will be transubstantiated into a new reality.”
Unlike the Catholic understanding of transubstantiation, churches like ours find the Lord's Supper to be a memorial of Christ's sacrifice. Still, this is an astonishing insensitivity. (HT: Terry Mattingly)
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