What are the "love feasts"?

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Jude, verse 12, (Jude 12) is the only specific mention of “love feasts.” Some believe that this referred to feasts connected to the Lord’s supper, or to an abuse of the Lord’s supper. Either is condemned by Paul. He told the Corinthians “you have houses to eat and drink in,” and “if anyone is hungry let him eat at home” (1 Cor. 11:22,34). So, whatever the love feasts were, they do not authorize church feasts. The Lord’s supper is not a feast, it is a memorial of the body and blood of Christ (Mt. 26:26,27). Disciples in Troas ate food every day, but they come together to eat the Lord’s supper in the first day of the week (Acts 20:7). Feasting is to satisfy physical hunger, and should be done where strangers are lodged (1 Tim. 5:10). Observing the Lord’s supper is an act of worship in the assembly.