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"Understand spiritually what I have said; ye are not to eat this body which ye see; nor to drink that blood which they who will crucify Me shall pour forth. I have commended unto you a certain mystery; spiritually understood, it will quicken. Although it is needful that this be visibly celebrated, yet it must be spiritually understood.”

I am truly amazed. You do not even know what is being declared. Only a Catholic christian could tell you. You are just short of knowing. But never to full meaning. He does not mean what you are trying to imply.

At the end Augustine declares by using the word celebrated like a Catholic -which means consecration of the bread into the body. -Yet it must be spiritually understood. He is talking about what we have today. If someone walks into the Mass to have Communion without understanding the real presence he can not have the eucharist. That is what it means. What gerry picking nonsense. Amazing.

“At the end Augustine declares by using the word celebrated like a Catholic”

Well that’s a pretty pathetic defense. So you see the word “celebrated,” and so you assume that it must mean he believed that it was REALLY Christ who was being consumed? Instead of the celebration of the Eucharist that ALL Christians already do? Aren’t you just projecting your own man-made beliefs onto someone who lived something like 1,600+ years ago? And aren’t you IGNORING everything he said to wrest one SINGLE word out of it? What about all the parts that said they “RESEMBLE” the reality, but are NOT the reality, they only SIGNIFY the reality, that Christ is NOT consumed. How much clearer do you want it? Where’s your EVIDENCE besides your blind faith in your Pope that Augustine was just KIDDING in all those quotes?