Reference: Sacraments
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SACRAMENTS
1. The term.
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Now as they were at table, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body:
but I tell you, that from henceforth I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.
Go ye therefore and instruct all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
They therefore that received his word with readiness were baptized: and in that same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfast in the apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea; read more. and did all eat the same spiritual food; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.
As often then as ye eat of this bread, and drink of this cup, ye commemorate the Lord's death till he come.
This mystery is great: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision not performed by hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision which is of Christ: