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Christian Mystery›SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH›CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION›II. What is This Sacrament Called?

eucharist sin sacraments

Entities

Anointing of the Sick Communion of Saints Eucharist Heaven Messiah

Topics

bread, spirit, christ, holy church, christ, holy, communion god, come, power, kingdom

Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body. We also call it: the holy things (ta hagia; sancta) - the first meaning of the phrase "communion of saints" in the Apostles' Creed - the bread of angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality, viaticum....

Footnotes

Cf. ⇒ 1 Cor 10: 16-17.
Apostolic Constitutions 8, 13,12 PG 1,1108; Didache 9, 5; 10:6: SCh: 248,176- 178.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2 SCh 10, 76.

Bible Citations (1)

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 10: 16-17

Church Fathers (1)

Ignatius Antioch

Ecclesiastical Documents (2)

Patrologia Graeca Sources Chretiennes

Patrologia Graeca 1,1108, Sources Chretiennes 10, 76

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