Fraction (religion)

The Fraction or fractio panis (Latin for 'breaking of the bread') is the ceremonial act of breaking the consecrated sacramental bread before distribution to communicants during the Eucharistic rite in some Christian denominations, especially Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism.

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