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28  Fathers of the Church -  St Jerome (c. 347 - 420 A.D.)

"If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven." 

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32  Fathers of the Church -  Justin Martyr

"Of the sacrifice which we offer in every place, that is, of the bread and chalice of the Eucharist, Malachias has prophesied." 

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157  Fathers of the Church -  Tertullian (c. 155 - 250 A.D.)

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

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162  Fathers of the Church -  The Council of Trent, Section XIII, Decree on the Most Holy Eucharist

Our Savior, therefore, when about to depart from this world to the Father, instituted this sacrament in which He poured forth, as it were, the riches of His divine love for men, "making a remembrance of his wonderful works" (Ps 110:4), and He commanded us in the consuming of it to cherish His "memory" (1 Cor 11:24), and "to show forth his death until He come" to judge the world (1 Cor 11:26). But He wished that this sacrament be received as the spiritual food of souls (Mt 26:26), by which they may be nourished and strengthened, living by the life of Him who said: "He who eateth me, the same also shall live by me" (Jn 6:58), and as an antidote, whereby we may be freed from daily faults and be preserved from mortal sins. He wished, furthermore, that this be a pledge of our future glory and of everlasting happiness..." 
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