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What the Fathers say

Mark 14:7

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

Let those be ashamed, then, who prefer the poor to Christ! For I have heard goldsmiths who say that if one breaks a church vessel into pieces and gives them to the poor, there will be no sin. Let them hear, then, how Christ values service to Him above service to the poor. And on the golden diskos is the true Body of Christ, and in the chalice is the Blood of Christ. …

Commentary on Mark ↗

Western Saints

Bede

To me, indeed, He seems to speak of His bodily presence, that He should by no means be with them after His resurrection, as He then was living with them in all familiarity.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗