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To: HarleyD; Agrarian; annalex

" Besides, if you want to interpret this as the Eucharist is to be administered daily then perhaps the Church should use Pez dispensers. ;O)"

Oh, I don't know, Harley. Your favorite Father Blessed Augustine wrote this in 412:

"To Proba, a Devoted Handmaid of God, Bishop Augustin, a Servant of Christ and of Christ’s Servants, Sends Greeting in the Name of the Lord of Lords.

'When we say: “Give us this day our daily bread,” the word “this day” signifies for the present time, in which we ask either for that competency of temporal blessings which I have spoken of before (“bread” being used to designate the whole of those blessings, because of its constituting so important a part of them), or the sacrament of believers, which is in this present time necessary, but necessary in order to obtain the felicity not of the present time, but of eternity.'"


8,316 posted on 06/09/2006 6:30:06 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis; Agrarian; annalex
I understand what Augustine wrote. I don't agree with him. I'm not sure if he was using the poorly translated version or if his mind was set in this superstitious belief.


8,329 posted on 06/10/2006 1:17:49 AM PDT by HarleyD ("Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" Luke 24:45)
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