What you receive is what you yourselves are
![Icon of the multiplication of loaves: “However many loaves may be placed there, it’s one loaf, however many loaves there may be on Christ’s altars throughout the world it’s one loaf. But what does it mean, one loaf? [St Paul] explained very briefly: one body is what we, being many, are. This is the body of Christ, about which the apostle says, while addressing the Church, But you are the body of Christ and his members (1 Cor 12:27). What you receive is what you yourselves are, thanks to the grace by which you have been redeemed; you add your signature to this, when you answer Amen. What you see here is the sacrament of unity.” (St. Augustine, Sermon 229)](http://brericocc.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/multiplication-of-loaves.jpg)
Icon of the multiplication of loaves: “However many loaves may be placed there, it’s one loaf, however many loaves there may be on Christ’s altars throughout the world it’s one loaf. But what does it mean, one loaf? [St Paul] explained very briefly: one body is what we, being many, are. This is the body of Christ, about which the apostle says, while addressing the Church, But you are the body of Christ and his members (1 Cor 12:27). What you receive is what you yourselves are, thanks to the grace by which you have been redeemed; you add your signature to this, when you answer Amen. What you see here is the sacrament of unity.” (St. Augustine, Sermon 229)
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