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Julie Hanlon Rubio, in her book entitled “Family Ethics” viewed that “Christian meals through the lens of the Eucharist yields a more substantive understanding of what Christian families ought to be about when they gather to eat”. This gathering at the table can be experienced as communion. “At the Last Supper, a final meal, Jesus intended to give his disciples a meal from which they draw nourishment forever for their spiritual journey. This meal was testamentary meal, a meal which he eagerly longed to share with his apostles.”This meal also expresses a deep joy and gratitude of an intimate relationship with Christ. Thus, “this communion in the Last Supper reflecting in the Christian Filipino family meal is not only focusing on the emotional bonds of being together and family closeness, rather binding themselves to one another in a community oriented to Christ”. A community oriented to Christ is a family who exercises this love, joy and mercy at the table within the family. Like a typical Filipino, we are fond of eating together with our family members, relatives and neighborhood, we expresses this joy of being together reminiscing happy moments, laughter’s and tears .It is a vital ingredient to build and strengthen family relationships. Thus as Filipino family, we are all endowed to participate in our call to love, gratitude and mercy towards one another. In one of the article made by Fr. James McTavish“To be Sharers of God’s Mercy to Others”stated that “In practicing mercy Jesus gives us a commandment: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Lk 6:36). We are called to be instruments of God’s mercy. He desires that our families be as good as they can be that we try to love each other as much as we can.” The Eucharist fulfills the fundamental human need for communion with God and others. In sharing a meal together, physical hunger is not only satisfied but also our spiritual, emotional hunger for understanding, reconciliation, love, communication, liberation from fear, envious, insecurities and all the things that might hinder us towards a good relationship with others. Thus,