Eucharist: “Luke [= Acts] does not think of the ministries of the young Church in relation either to the Eucharist or to a power that enables a person effectively to perform certain supernatural actions.”2 The few bits of information left to us are anything but simple evaluations. Here, in necessarily brief form, is a quick sketch of the cultic powers and functions assigned to various ministries in the New Testament. The Twelve: These are the apostles par excellence, those who knew the Master in