In His appearances to his disciples after His Resurrection, Jesus Christ either ate bread before them or blessed their meal. Thus, unrecognized by two of His disciples, He blessed their evening meal in Emmaus on the Day of His Resurrection, and was recognized by them in the breaking of bread. Later, that same evening, again appearing to the disciples gathered in the Upper Room on Mt. Zion, he ate fish and honey to convince them of the fact of His Resurrection. In commemoration of these events, at meals the Apostles would put a portion of bread in the center, at the place which Christ would ordinarily occupy. Lifting up this bread, they would exclaim "Christ is Risen!' Emulating the Apostles, the Fathers of the Church instituted the practice of putting a special loaf of bread known as the Artos and bearing an image of the Resurrected Christ, in the church on the day of Holy Feast of Pascha. At the end of the Divine Liturgy on the first day of Pascha, this Artos is blessed with a special prayer and holy water, and as a symbol of the Resurrected Christ, is carried around the church in a Procession of the Cross. On Sunday of Bright Week, the prayer for the cutting of the Artos is again read over it. In that prayer, we ask for God's blessings upon the believers who will consume it unto health of soul and body. The Artos reminds us that Jesus Christ, after His death and Resurrection became for Christians the true Bread of Life, just as He had described Himself.