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The Bread of Life, or, St. Thomas Aquinas on the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Divided into seven parts, The Bread of Life consists of thirty meditations on the Blessed Sacrament. Rawes has translated the original Latin into English and provided summaries for each meditation in the table of contents.

C. We have thought, in the last two Meditations, of the Blood of Jesus as it is drunk in the Holy Sacrament; now we consider it as spiritually drunk, apart from the Altar, by the saved. Speaking of the fathers of Israel, St. Augustin says, ‘They drank the same spiritual draught as we, though the bodily draught was different; for the water which flowed from the rock was a sign of the Blood of Christ, which