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To: GoLightly; Mad Dawg
A month long devotion isn’t the same thing as everyone in communion partaking of the body & blood every single time that the Eucharist is offered.

It's ironic you phrase the question this way, since this is exactly what we believe: We believe that everytime we partake of the Eucharist, in the form of bread, that we actually receive both the Body and the Blood. So we actually do receive both, even if we only receive the consecrated Host.

As for your question regarding unleavened/leavened bread used in the consecration, it's an interesting one, one I recently heard myself. I don't know the answer although I think Mad Dawg may be onto something. Perhaps our Orthodox bretheren could shed some light on it though.

20 posted on 08/04/2007 8:41:09 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven
We believe that everytime we partake of the Eucharist, in the form of bread, that we actually receive both the Body and the Blood.

Because partaking in the host is taking in Christ in whole. Why bother having any wine at all?

23 posted on 08/04/2007 9:21:50 AM PDT by GoLightly
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