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The '''Host''' in [[Christianity|Christian]] [[worship]] is the [[Consecration|consecrated]] bread or wafer of the [[Eucharist]], received or taken in [[Communion]].
The word "host" is from the [[Old French]] term ''hoiste'', from [[Latin]] ''hostia'' "sacrificial victim".<blockquote>We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the [[tabernacle]]. Hebrews 13:10</blockquote>
See [[Real presence]] and [[Transubstantiation]].
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