Stephen Colbert Defends The Faith

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Done. Also following.

 

Can you take over for a night? PM me. My phone isn't letting me post.

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I'll just put this here

 

St. Augustine, Sermons, [227] A.D. 391-430:

    

    

... I promised you, who have now been baptized, a sermon in
which I would explain the Sacrament of the Lord's Table, which you now
look upon and of which you last night were made participants. You
ought to know what you have received, what you are going to receive,
and what you ought to receive daily. That Bread which you see on the
altar, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the Body of
Christ. That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been
sanctified by the word of God, is the Blood of Christ. Through that
bread and wine the Lord Christ willed to commend His Body and Blood,
which He poured out for us unto the forgiveness of sins. If you
receive worthily, you are what you have received.
   

 

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 St. Augustine, Sermons, [272] A.D. 391-430:

    

    

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what
your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to
accept is that the bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice the
Blood of Christ. ... How is the bread His Body? And the chalice, or
what is in the chalice, how is it His Blood? Those elements,
brethren, are called Sacraments, because in them one thing is seen,
but another is understood. What is seen is the corporeal species, but
what is understood is the spiritual fruit. ... `You, however, are the
Body of Christ and His members.' If, therefore, you are the Body of
Christ and His members, your mystery is presented at the table of the
Lord, you receive your mystery. To that which you are, you answer:
`Amen'; and by answering, you subscribe to it. For you hear: `The
Body of Christ!' and you answer: `Amen!' Be a member of Christ's
Body, so that your `Amen' may be the truth.