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VOLUME XCI - NO. 13 | 115 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE GOSPEL | APRIL 11-17, 2015
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Witnessing
to Christ
F
or some 2,000 years, the Church
has taught that bread and wine con-
secrated during Mass become the
actual body and blood of Jesus. However,
almost half of Catholics polled believe she
teaches they are merely symbols of the
body and blood of Christ.
"That is the fundamental miracle
and controversy of the Catholic faith,"
according to Patrick Co n, host of the
radio show "Catholic Answers Live."
Co n was one of several theologians
interviewed in "The Eucharist: Source
and Summit of Christian Life," a video
of the Symbolon series produced by the
Augustine Institute, a Catholic graduate
school based in Greenwood Village, to
help Catholics understand this central
teaching of the Church.
"(People ask) 'How can God's body be
available to me? How can this bread be
God's body?" he said. "I think the answer
is—Jesus himself says it is."
From the fi rst days of the Church,
Christians have celebrated the Lord's
Supper as Jesus instituted it on Holy
Thursday, when he took the bread,
blessed it, broke it and said, "Take and
eat; this is my body." Then he took a cup,
gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
"Drink from it, all of you, for this is my
blood of the covenant, which will be shed
on behalf of many for the forgiveness of
sins" (Mt 26:27-28).
"What did Jesus mean by this?" Edward
Sri, Ph.D., Augustine Institute chancel-
lor and professor, asked in the Symbolon
video. "Did he really intend for us to eat
his body and drink his blood?"
According to a 2010 poll conducted
by the Pew Research Center's Forum on
Religion and Public Life, 55
percent of Catholics said 'yes,'
True food?
True drink?
BY JULIE FILBY
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PHOTO BY AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE
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