Reference: Sacraments
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SACRAMENTS
1. The term.
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Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; read more. and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
This is a profound mystery; but I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;