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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
What are you saying? If you were holding a memorial for a son or a father, your conscience would torment you if you did not fulfill what is customary and did not invite the poor, yet when holding a memorial for the Master, you do not even share the meal at all.
Desert Fathers
Daniel the disciple of Arsenius used to talk also about a hermit in Scetis, saying that he was a great man but simple in the faith, and in his ignorance he thought and said that the bread which we receive is not in very truth the Body of Christ, but a symbol of His Body. …
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
Do you want to know why it is consecrated with heavenly words? Receive the words. The priest says: 'Make this offering written, ratified, reasonable, acceptable, which is the figure of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who, on the day before he suffered, took bread into his holy hands, looked up to you, holy Father almighty, eternal God, giving thanks, he blessed it, broke it, and gave it to his apostles and disciples, saying: Take and eat all of you from this; for this is my body which will be broken for many.' He took …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, he took bread, he shows the manner of the institution: first, he relates what Christ said and did in instituting this sacrament; secondly, he explains (v. 26). In regard to the first he does two things: first, he deals with the institution of this sacrament as to the body of Christ; secondly, as to His blood (v. 25). In regard to the first, before explaining the text one must first consider the need for instituting this sacrament. …
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