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 S. MARUTHAS, G. C.-“ Do this in remembrance of me. This was necessary and very proper : for if the perpetual participation of the Sacraments had not been delivered, whence could we have learnt salvation through Christ; or by whose persuasion have been led to the knowledge of so great a mystery? To the bulk of mankind it would have been most difficult to be believed; and thus they would have been deprived of the communion of the body and blood of Christ. But now, as often as we approach, and receive on our hands the body and blood, we believe, that we embrace his body, and become, as it is written, flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones. For Christ did not call it the figure or species of his body, but he said : This, truly, is my body; and this is my blood.”(e) Com. in Matt. Apud Assemani, Bibl. Orient. T.i. p. 180. Romæ, 1719.

ST. AUGUSTIN, L.C. - “As you know, the sacrifice of