have been a part of the holy meal ever since the beginning of Christian worship: taking bread, blessing bread, breaking bread, and giving bread to the worshipers. They appear in the New Testament accounts of the Last Supper (see Matt. 26:26) and in virtually all subsequent Christian eucharistic liturgies. Indeed, the church is always in the desert, the place where it cannot rely upon its own resources, which are few. The church is hungry itself and is surrounded by a world of deep cravings, people