the use of the bread and wine as the Eucharist is because when Jesus instituted the sacrament at the Last Supper, He used the bread and wine as it was a Passover meal or Seder that Christ and his disciples celebrated. Jesus also referred Himself as the Bread of life in the sixth chapter in the Gospel of John. both unleavened bread and wine are common elements of the Passover Seder. whenever bread and wine are shown together in Christian art, it is the portrayal of the Eucharist.
Also from the Catholic point of view, the Eucharist is not symbolic, at all. the Eucharist is the truly actual Body and Blood of Christ; it does not symbolize Him or represent Him; the Eucharist is Him.
Roman Catholic AnswerIt depends on what color the wheat used is. The Eucharist can be confected validly with common wheat flour, or with whole wheat flour. The first renders the Eucharist white, or off-white, the later renders it reddish or brown.
The entire sixth chapter of St. John's Gospel is about the Eucharist. The first half of that chapter is the story of the Feeding the Five Thousand, which is a symbol for the Eucharist, which Our Blessed Lord then explains in the second half of that chapter.
No, the symbol for the Eucharist is a Crucifix(a cross with a representation of Our Blessed Lord's Body on it.)
The symbol of Demeter is a handful of harvested wheat
For Freemasons, wheat is the symbol of plenty.
Her symbol is a stalk of wheat not a cornucopia
The shell is principally a symbol of baptism since a shell is often used to pour water on the head.
Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and harvest, is commonly associated with the symbol of wheat. She is often depicted holding a sheaf of wheat or standing in a field of wheat.
Catholics celebrate the Eucharist every Sunday at mass.
Her main symbol's are an ear of wheat and the Horn of Plenty (Cornucopia).
Ceres, and wheat.
Wheat, corn, barley