Explanations of the Psalms"Christ was carried in his own hands when, referring to his own body, he said, ‘This is my body’ [Matt. 26:26]. For he carried that body in his hands"and Sermons 227 "I promised you [new Christians], who have now been baptized, a sermon in which I would explain the sacrament of the Lord’s table. . . . That bread that you see on the altar, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the body of Christ. That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the blood of Christ"and from the same page 272 "What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction"and from Explanation of the Psalmsn 99 "He took flesh from the flesh of Mary . . . and gave us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation. . . . We do sin by not adoring" |
This needs a little clarification.
The flesh of Mary is part of Christ and therefore part of salvation? Mary's flesh is in the Eucharist? And "by not adoring" who? Jesus? Mary?
It sounds like this means Mary is adored and deservedly so, because her flesh is part of Christ's flesh, therefore she is part of the eucharist, and she is part of salvation. Am I getting this right?