II. What is This Sacrament Called?
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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.149 We also call
it: the holy things (ta hagia; sancta)150 – the first meaning of the
phrase “communion of saints” in the Apostles’ Creed – the bread of
angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality,151 viaticum….
- SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
- Article 3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
- II. What is This Sacrament Called?
- Article 3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
- CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3Y.HTM