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+ Lord, You gave food and drink to men for enjoyment, that they might give thanks to You. But to us You freely gave spiritual food and drink, and life eternal, through Your Servant Christ Jesus. - “The Didache” + Take care to have only one Eucharist. For there is only one flesh of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup to the unity of His Blood. - St. Ignatius of Antioch + Breaking one and the same Bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying, so that we should live together in Jesus Christ. - St. Ignatius of Antioch + I desire the “Bread of God”, the “Heavenly Bread,” the “Bread of Life”-which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And I desire the drink of God, namely His Blood, which is incorruptible love and eternal life. - St. Ignatius of Antioch + The wine and bread having received the sacred Word of God, become the Eucharist, which is the Body and Blood of Christ. - St. Irenaeus + Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of God, the Most High, gave bread and wine, providing consecrated food as a type of the Eucharist. - St Clement of Alexandria + Let no one eat or drink of your Eucharist but those who have been baptized into the name of the Lord. - “The Didache” + When they wish to repent, we receive pagans into the Church to hear the Word of God. However, we do not receive them into communion until they have received the seal of Baptism and are made complete Christians. - “The Apostolic Constitutions” + Sacrifices do not sanctify a man. For God does not stand in need of sacrifices. Instead, it is the conscience of the one who offers it that sanctifies the sacrifice when it is pure. This moves God to accept it as from a friend. - St. Irenaeus + The oblation of the Church (i.e. Eucharist), for which the Lord gave instructions to be offered throughout all the world, is considered by God to be a pure sacrifice, and it is acceptable to Him. For by this gift, both honor and affection are shown forth to the King. - St. Irenaeus - 133 -
+ Only the priest who imitates that which Christ did (i.e. using wine mixed with water) is the one who truly discharges the office of Christ. He only offers a true and full sacrifice in the Church to God the Father when he proceeds to offer it in the manner that he sees Christ Himself to have offered it. - St. Cyprian + The Eucharist is to be received with fear and honor. As St. Paul relates, “Whoever will eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:27). - St. Cyprian + He who cultivates innocence, supplicates God. He who cultivates justice, makes offerings to God. He who abstains from fraudulent practices, wins over God...These are our sacrifices, these are our rites of God’s worship. - Mark Minucius Felix + In our Faith there is no place even for a slight and ordinary offense. If anyone comes to a sacrifice without a sound conscience, he hears what threats God denounces against him. - Lactantius + You shall not abandon the Commandments of the Lord but you shall keep what you have received, adding nothing to it, nor taking anything away. - “The Didache” + Do not be lead astray by winning words and clever arguments about the Scriptures. Even to me, who tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things I announce. - St. Cyril of Jerusalem + Seek and find, and realize that the truth does not lie openly on the surface. - St. Clement + The hearer of God’s Word ought to be like those animals that chew the cud; one ought not only feed upon it, but meditate and bring it forth to action. - St. Augustine + We ought not to suspend ourselves from the Holy Eucharist because we confess ourselves to be sinners, but should more and more eagerly hasten to it for the healing of our soul. - St. John Cassian + This is the body which He gave us both to hold in reserve and to eat, which was appropriate to intense love; for those whom we kiss with abandon we often bite with our own teeth. - St. John Chrysostom - 134 -
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INTRODUCTION The Church depends on
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PRAYER BEFORE STUDY: O Lord, grant
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+ To be subjected to our lusts, and
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+ In writing to a young man, a holy
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+ God created us in His image and l
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+ Glory is like the human shadow; i
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much is one willing to pay, and do
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+ A young monk confessed to his eld
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+ It is useless to try to teach wha
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+ For the preservation of peace of
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+ Even if we are entirely despised
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+ The wrath of man is a terrible, u
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+ A Christian has great difficulty
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+ He is not worthy to receive conso
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+ No sense of virtue can possibly b
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+ Those, therefore, who cast away t
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+ We leave undone what we know we s
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