The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
CHAPTER VII
The Eucharist
We are therefore present at each and every Mass under the appearance of bread and wine, which stand as symbols of our body and blood. We are not passive spectators as we might be watching a spectacle in a theater, but we are co-offering our Mass with Christ.
We are on the altar symbolically under the appearance of bread and wine. But bread comes from wheat and wine from grapes, and neither become what they are, except by passing through, in one instance a mill, and in the other a wine press.
Hence both are symbols of Christians who are called to suffer with Christ, that they may reign with Christ.
[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons
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