The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church with Bshp. Andrew Cozzens
Chapter 5: What is Holy Communion?
Episode 5
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22m
What does Holy Communion mean? It means this: "The Lord Jesus drawing close to us to be one with us." In the Eucharist, received with a proper disposition, we become what we receive. We become Christ, united in his mystical body, the Church. Christ sustains us in communion with Himself, as the early Christian martyrs attested to when they said, "Sine dominico non possumus" - "Without the Lord's Supper, we cannot live."
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