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 1  Int,    1    |        through the changing of bread and wine into the body and
 2  Int,    1    |        our passover and living bread. Through his own flesh,
 3  Int,    2    |      is there that Christ took bread, broke it and gave it to
 4  Int,    3    | fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” (2:42).
 5  Int,    3    |      42). The “breaking of the bread” refers to the Eucharist.
 6  Int,    7    |        life. From this “living bread” she draws her nourishment.
 7    1,   14    |   become in the Eucharist the “bread of life” (Jn 6:35, 48),
 8    1,   14    |      Jn 6:35, 48), the “living bread” (Jn 6:51). Saint Ambrose
 9    1,   15    |        the consecration of the bread and wine effects the change
10    1,   15    |     Jerusalem exhorts – in the bread and wine merely natural
11    1,   15    | independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to
12    1,   15    |     the sacramental species of bread and wine”.26~
13    1,   17    |  Ephrem writes: “He called the bread his living body and he filled
14    1,   18    |        defined the Eucharistic Bread as “a medicine of immortality,
15    2,   21    |   sacrament of the Eucharistic bread, the unity of the faithful,
16    2,   23    |       to the Corinthians: “The bread which we break, is it not
17    2,   23    |   Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one
18    2,   23    |      we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor 10:16-17). Saint
19    2,   23    |   perceptive: “For what is the bread? It is the body of Christ.
20    2,   23    |    bodies but one body. For as bread is completely one, though
21    2,   25    |      as long as the species of bread and of wine remain 45 –
22    4,   36    |     himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup” (1
23    4,   43(91)|       of us, who share the one bread and the one cup, to one
24    5,   47    |      spoken by Christ over the bread and wine, which he made
25    5,   47    |        of the “breaking of the bread” already well-established
26    5,   48    |      quo Christus sumitur! The bread which is broken on our altars,
27    5,   48    |        is panis angelorum, the bread of angels, which cannot
28    5,   50    |        of Christ in the broken bread is as it were immersed in
29    6,   53    |    devoted to “the breaking of bread” (Acts 2:42).~But in addition
30    6,   54    |    into wine, he can also turn bread and wine into his body and
31    6,   54    |   passover, thus becoming the 'bread of life'”.~
32    6,   55    |   receives, under the signs of bread and wine, the Lord's body
33    6,   55    |    divinity under the signs of bread and wine.~“Blessed is she
34    6,   58    |       the sacramental signs of bread and wine, the seeds of that
35  CON,   59    |   recognize in the consecrated bread and wine the divine Wayfarer
36  CON,   62    |         In the humble signs of bread and wine, changed into his
37  CON,   62    |      Come then, good Shepherd, bread divine,~Still show to us