19- The Sacrament Of The Holy Eucharist

 

St-Takla.org Image: The Abrosvarin, Aprosvarein - First Holy Liturgy at Saint TaklaHaimanout Coptic Orthodox Church, Alexandria, Egypt, after the 2007 reconstruction, 30 March 2007 - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: الأبروسفارين، ابروسفارين، في كنيسة الأنبا تكلا - صور القداس الأول بعد ترميم كنيسة الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، الإبراهيمية، الإسكندرية، 30 مارس 2007 م. - تصوير مايكل غالي لـ: موقع الأنبا تكلا هيمانوت.

13-The Sacrament Of The Holy Eucharist

You see in faith the bread and wine in front of you transform into the body and the blood of the Lord. Here you can not rely on your senses to judge, because the bodily senses see only the visible matters. But the spiritual senses heed to what the Lord says “This is my body... This is my blood” (Matt. 26:26,28), “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you... My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” (John 6:53-56).

I do not dispute what the Lord said but I accept it in faith.

In faith we are sure of what we do not see for what is seen is bread and wine. This is what Saint Paul says “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of