bars of your gates.’ Neatly said, ‘strengthened’; whenever you see a man of the Church in debate, do not imagine that it is he who is debating; no, He who gives strength to him is carrying on the disputation. ‘With the best of wheat he fills you.’ ‘Unless the grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains alone, but if it die it brings about the salvation of many.’7 Our Lord, the grain of wheat, has fallen into the ground and has multiplied us. This grain of wheat is very fertile, full of