1 June 2023
This food we call “Eucharist,” and no one may share it unless he
believes that our teaching is true, and has been cleansed in the bath of
forgiveness for sin and of rebirth, and lives as Christ taught. For we do not
receive these things as if they were ordinary food and drink. But, just as
Jesus Christ our Savior was made flesh through the word of God and took on
flesh and blood for our salvation, so too (we have been taught) through the
word of prayer that comes from him, the food over which the Eucharist has been
spoken becomes the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus, in order to nourish
and transform our flesh and blood.
Justin Martyr
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