The search for a pattern for the con-temporary Christian Eucharist takes us back into the history much before Christ's earthly birth. Ancient traditions, as the Roman and Greek banquets and festive meals were an image of what will follow in the Christian religion; the world was preparing for its Saviour. Coming closer to the place where the Christian religion was born, the Jewish monotheist world was the proper environment for our Lord's incarnation. The New Testament accounts of the Last Supper give us one of the first written Eucharistic patterns, which will be followed by Christians in the first centuries.
