Body and Blood of Christ Quotes

• The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.

  

  Tertullian
  • Soul
  • Feeds
  • Body and Blood of Christ

• It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Reality
  • Passion
  • Sacrifice