The Means of Communion
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How can bodily eating and drinking produce such great benefits?
It is not the eating and drinking alone, but also the words that accompany it, "Given and shed for you for the forgiveness of sins." These words, together with the eating and drinking, are the chief thing in the Sacrament, and those who believe them have what they say and declare, namely, the forgiveness of sins.