How is the Eucharist connected to Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples?

The Eucharist is fundamentally connected to the Last Supper as the ritual commemoration of the final meal Jesus shared with his disciples on the night before his crucifixion.12

During this meal, which is described in the Synoptic Gospels and the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians, Jesus established the Eucharist by blessing bread and wine. He identified the bread as his body and the wine as the "blood of my covenant," which he shared with his disciples.324

By performing this act, Jesus instituted the sacrament as a memorial of his sacrifice. According to St. Luke, Jesus commanded his followers to repeat this ceremony in his memory. Early Christians continued this practice as a way to participate in Christ’s sacrificial work and as an anticipation of the future joys of the kingdom of God.5432