Catechism of the Catholic Church
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1331 Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body. 151 We also call it: the holy things (ta hagia; sancta) 152 - the first meaning of the phrase "communion of saints" in the Apostles' Creed - the bread of angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality, 153 viaticum....
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PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY |
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SECTION TWO: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH |
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CHAPTER ONE: THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION |
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ARTICLE 3: THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST |
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151 Cf. I Cor 10:16-17.152 Apostolic Constitutions 8, 13, 12 PG 1, 1108; Didache 9, 5; 10:6: SCh: 248,176- 178.
153 St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2: SCh 10, 76.
English Translation of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.
