Holy Eucharist - Blessed Sacrament teachings
Holy Eucharist teachings by: Fathers of the Church, The Saints, The Blessed, The popes, The Bible, The Catechism, Testimonies, Prayers
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Saint Augustine"Christ is both the Priest, offering Himself, and Himself the Victim. He willed that the Sacramental Sign of this should be the daily Sacrifice of the Church, who, since the Church is His body and He the Head, learns to offer herself through Him." (City of God 10:20)
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Holy Eucharist teachings by: Fathers of the Church, The Saints, The Blessed, The popes, The Bible, The Catechism, Testimonies, Prayers
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Saint Augustine"By those sacrifices of the Old Law, this one Sacrifice is signified, in which there is a true remission of sins; but not only is no one forbidden to take as food the Blood of this Sacrifice, rather, all who wish to possess life are exhorted to drink thereof." (Questions on the Heptateuch 3:57)
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Holy Eucharist teachings by: Fathers of the Church, The Saints, The Blessed, The popes, The Bible, The Catechism, Testimonies, Prayers
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Saint Augustine"Nor can it be denied that the souls of the dead find relief through the piety of their friends and relatives who are still alive, when the Sacrifice of the Mediator is offered for them, or when alms are given in the church." (Ench Faith, Hope, Love 29:110)
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Holy Eucharist teachings by: Fathers of the Church, The Saints, The Blessed, The popes, The Bible, The Catechism, Testimonies, Prayers
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Saint Augustine"But by the prayers of the Holy Church, and by the Salvific Sacrifice, and by the alms which are given for their spirits, there is no doubt that the dead are aided that the Lord might deal more mercifully with them than their sins would deserve. For the whole Church observes this practice which was handed down by the Fathers that it prays for those who have died in the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, when they are commemorated in their own place in the Sacrifice itself; and the Sacrifice is offered also in memory of them, on their behalf. If, the works of mercy are celebrated for the sake of those who are being remembered, who would hesitate to recommend them, on whose behalf prayers to God are not offered in vain? It is not at all to be doubted that such prayers are of profit to the dead; but for such of them as lived before their death in a way that makes it possible for these things to be useful to them after death." (Sermons 172:2)
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