The Agape feast (also called Love feast) was a loosely structured early Christian service that typically included a social meal. Because food was often eaten, it is often presumed to have a connection with the liturgical Eucharist.

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  • The Agape feast (also called Love feast) was a loosely structured early Christian service that typically included a social meal. Because food was often eaten, it is often presumed to have a connection with the liturgical Eucharist. If indeed connected, it was separated from the Eucharist by the early second century, when Pliny the Younger reported that the Christians regularly met "on a stated day" in the early morning to "address a form of prayer to Christ, as to a divinity", and later in the day would "reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal". Neither Scripture nor any documents of the early church ever equate the Agape with the Eucharist and any putative relationship between them had virtually ceased by the time of Cyprian (died 258). Early canons of the church restricted the social meals of Agapes from being given in church sanctuaries. The prominence of the Agape in the church Fathers suggests that this informal service was second in church life only to the devotional Lord's Supper.
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  • The Agape feast (also called Love feast) was a loosely structured early Christian service that typically included a social meal. Because food was often eaten, it is often presumed to have a connection with the liturgical Eucharist.
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