What is the Bread? The Body of Christ. And what do those who partake of it become? The Body of Christ. Not several bodies, but one body. Just as the bread, while it is made up of many grains, is one bread, so that the grains are nowhere apparent, even though they are there... in the same way, we are united with each other and with Christ. For it is not that you are nourished by one body, and the other person by another; we are all nourished by the same Body. That is why St. Paul adds, "For we all partake of the one bread" (1 Cor 10:17).
+St. John Chrysostom, from Homily 24 on 1st Corinthians, #2.
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