Reference: Sacraments
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SACRAMENTS
1. The term.
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And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.
But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day. And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.
Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea; And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea; read more. And they all took the same holy food; And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.
For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.
In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;