**In Acts, Peter gave the sermon at Pentecost (Acts 1:14-36), led the replacing of Judas (1:22), worked the first miracle of the Church age (3:6-12), and condemned Ananias and Sapphira (5:2-11). His mere shadow worked miracles (5:15); he was the first person after Christ to raise the dead (9:40), and he took the gospel to the Gentiles (Acts 10). Peter’s name appears at least 54 times in Acts; James appears a total of four times.**
That’s fine. But Peter is not found preaching the Lord’s supper, for salvation, anywhere in Acts, or in his epistles.
Also, he wasted NO time in baptizing souls in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. He KNEW the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is Jesus. That’s why you never see Matt. 28:19 repeated (it says ‘name’, not ‘names’). The apostles knew the name is JESUS. Jesus was giving a command. They knew how to follow it. (The Son inheritted his name from the Father. The Holy Ghost is sent in the name of Jesus. It’s pretty simple).
But actions speak louder than words.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the celebration of the Eucharist is the fact that it has changed so little over twenty centuries. The essential elements are found in the narrative of the institution of the Eucharist as recorded in the Gospels. The liturgical structure of that celebration developed very rapidly in the early life of the Church as we see in Saint Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1Cor.11.26)(“For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.”) and the essential elements have remained unchanged. Even in many of the details, we find in the celebration of the liturgy today an identity with what went before us for so many centuries.
Like the Passover meal, this memorial sacrifice of the new law is both sacrifice and sacred meal. Both aspects remain inseparably a part of the same mystery. In an unbloody re- presentation of the sacrifice of the cross and in application of its saving power, the Lord is offered in the sacrifice of the Mass when through the words of consecration and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Christ is present in a sacramental form under the appearance of bread and wine to become the spiritual food of the faithful.
There is a large reservoir of evidence to show that this was a practice.
See the research on the matter found in this link
http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/father/a5.html
Once one accepts the infallibility of Petrine authority, the teaching of the Eucharist as explained in the Catholic Catechism is a given.
Of course those who dispute Petrine authority then its open season on what interpretation of scripture one accepts. One is free to pick and chose an interpretation/ritual/practice/ that comports with one’s own notion of what is “true.”