Sophia, your question this week is Children's Catechism 134. What does the bread represent? The answer is the body of Christ broken for us. Jesus, when He was instituting the Lord's Supper, He was breaking bread and passing it out. We see this in a few places in the New Testament, and this was a way of distributing food, except for at the Lord's Supper, it is not food that is distributed to us. It is the virtue, the benefits, the goodness, the life that comes from the Lord Jesus who has become a man and united us to himself in his humanity and who gives himself to us He doesn't just give himself for us at the cross, which he did, but he especially gives himself to us to unite us to him. We live in union and communion with the Lord Jesus Christ. Union meaning we are joined together in a special way and communion meaning we have a shared life with him. And in 1 Corinthians 10, it says, the bread that we break, is it not the communion or the shared life with the body of the Lord Jesus Christ? And so, when Jesus breaks the bread and distributes it to his disciples and says, this is my body broken for you, do this in remembrance of me, he teaches them to set their minds and hearts upon him as he is giving himself to be theirs and to have a shared life with him, particularly a shared life with him in his humanity and the benefits that come from the fact that He is true, real, and full man. And so, you look to Christ with your heart, and you ask Him to give Himself to you by means of the Lord's Supper. trusting Him, knowing His love for you, knowing His wisdom to know just how to give you what you need and what it is that you need, knowing His power that He is able to do so by His Holy Spirit, all of these things, receiving Him by faith then, knowing that He has commanded broken bread or bread to be broken, bread to be distributed to us that we might eat in remembrance of Him. So, what does the bread represent? The body of Christ broken for us.