fifth century), addressing the newly-baptized, says: "I
promised you a discourse wherein I would explain the sacrament of the
Lord's table, which sacrament you even now behold, and of which you were
last night made partakers. You ought to know what you have received. The
bread which you see on the altar, after being sanctified by the word of
God, is the body of Christ. That chalice, after being sanctified by the
word of God, is the blood of Christ."(376)

But why multiply authorities? At the present day every Christian communion
throughout the world, with the sole exception of Protestants, proclaim its
belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament.

The Nestorians and Eutychians, who separated from the Catholic Church in
the fifth century, admit the corporeal presence of our Lord in the
Eucharist. Such also is the faith of the Greek church, which seceded from
us a thousand years ago, of the Present Russian church, of the schismatic
Copts, the Syrians, Chaldeans, Armenians, and, in short, of all the
Oriental sects no longer in communion with the See of Rome.

Chapter XXII.

COMMUNION UNDER ONE KIND.

Our Savior gave communion under both forms of bread and wine to His
Apostles at the last Supper. Officiating Bishops and Priests are always
required, except on Good Friday, to communicate under both kinds. But even
the clergy of every rank, including the Pope, receive only of the
consecrated bread unless when they celebrate Mass.

The Church teaches that Christ is contained whole and entire under each
species; so that whoever communicates under the form of bread _or_ of wine
receives not a mutilated Sacrament or a divided Savior, but shares in the
whole Sacrament as fully as if he participated in both forms. Hence, the
layman who receives the consecrated Bread partakes as copiously of the
body and blood of Christ as the officiating Priest who receives both
consecrated elements.

Our Lord says: "I am the living bread which came down from Heaven. If any
man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread which I will
give is My flesh, for the life of the world.... He that eateth Me the same
also shall live by Me. He that eateth this bread shall live forever."(377)

From this passage it is evident that whoever partakes of the form of bread
partakes of the living flesh of Jesus Christ, which is inseparable from
His blood, and which, being now in a glorious state,