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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

1 Corinthians 10:17

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1 Corinthians 10:17 (WEB)

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

Catechism · 4

The Sacrament of the Eucharist

  • §1329Article 3 · The Sacrament of the EucharistRead at vatican.va

    “It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection, and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies; by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 10:16-17.

  • §1331Article 3 · The Sacrament of the EucharistRead at vatican.va

    “Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 10: 16-17.

  • §1396Article 3 · The Sacrament of the EucharistRead at vatican.va

    “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread:"” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 10:16-17.

The Sacrament of Matrimony

  • §1621Article 7 · The Sacrament of MatrimonyRead at vatican.va

    “…sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that, communicating in the same Body and the same Blood of Christ, they may form but "one body" in Christ.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 10:17.

Fathers and councils · 11

John Damascene

Cyril of Jerusalem

  • “…of the Holy and Adorable Trinity were simple bread and wine, while after the invocation the Bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the Wine the Blood of Christ, so in like manner such meats belonging to the pomp of Satan, though in their own nature simple, become profane by the invocation of the evil spirit.” — editor's note: Compare St. Paul’s argument against meats offered to idols, 1 Cor. x. 14–21: and on Cyril’s Eucharistic doctrine, see notes on Cat. xxii.

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Augustine of Hippo

Leo the Great

  • “For the vice of pride is a near neighbour to good deeds, and arrogance ever lies in wait hard by virtue: because it is hard for him that lives praise-worthily not to be caught by man’s praise unless, as it is written, “he that glorieth, glorieth in the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 17.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:17 takes up the words of Exodus 29:23 (8 words in common).

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