imparts its own strength to anyone who offers himself to receive his food.” Therefore the faithful are admonished: You who were allowed to assist at the sacred mysteries know that when you are given the Lord’s Body you are to guard it with all care and reverence, so that no crumb of it will fall to the ground. If, however, you take such great care to preserve his Body—and rightly so—how can you deem it a lesser fault to neglect God’s Word than his Body?3 God’s Logos is a whole: his physical Body
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