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Lectures on the Christian Sacraments: The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses is unavailable, but you can change that!

These six lectures on the Christian sacraments were delivered in Jerusalem in the middle of the fourth century. They belong to a period of rapid transition for the Church. Less than forty years before, Christianity had been an illegal religion, the object of intense persecution. Now it was the favored religion of the state. Potential converts thronged to the shining new basilicas, built through...

ye have no life in you.1 They not receiving His saying spiritually were offended, and went backward, supposing that He was inviting them to eat flesh. 5. Even under the Old Testament there was shewbread; but this as it belonged to the Old Testament, came to an end; but in the New Testament there is the Bread of heaven, and the Cup of salvation, sanctifying soul and body; for as the Bread has respect to our body, so is the Word appropriate to our soul. 6. Contemplate therefore the Bread and Wine not
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