The text goes on to give images from the Sermon on the Mount, and ends the section on the way of life with a modified version of the Ten Commandments. ... But it is also symbolic of spiritual food and drink giving faith, understanding, and immortality to Christians. ... Didache 9:2-3, however, mentions and separates, in this sequence, the cup to be passed and shared, the bread to be broken and shared (The Birth of Christianity, page 438)." ... Bread and wine are lifted up, prayed over, and then passed separately. ... Later in the same text, John Dominic Crossan goes on to say that the Didac...

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The "Catechism of the Council of Trent" gives a more complete definition: "Something perceptible by the senses which by Divine institution have the power both to signify and to affect sanctity and justice." ... The Council of Trent believes that Christ created the sacrament of penance after his resurrection giving the apostles the power to forgive. ... The sacrament of the Eucharist is in two parts; bread and wine which represent the body and blood of Christ. ... Christ told his Apostles to "take this bread and eat it for this is my body, take this wine and drink it for this is my blood, ...

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Catholic's believe that the bread and wine used in the mass is Christ's body and blood. ... The bishop then gives you a handshake and congratulates you on accepting your faith and wanting to pursue it by becoming confirmed. ...

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