Prayers & Reflections for March 6

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER VII
The Eucharist

We believe that Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present in His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity on our altars under the appearance of Bread.

How do we know it?
Our Lord told us "This is My Body."

No one ever doubted these words of Our Lord until the year 1088, and then it was later retracted. The next denial came four centuries later.

It is therefore relatively late in Christian history that mankind has been bold enough to say that Our Lord did not mean what He said about the Eucharist, or hell, or divorce...

[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