Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350-428) | EAST

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Homilies

Theodore of Mopsuestia, Catechetical Homily 15 (c. 410)

• The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist | §10

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(§10)¹

Then, when [our Lord] distributed the bread, he did not say that this is a type of my body, but that “This is my body”; and in like manner as regards the chalice [of wine], that this is not a type of my blood, but that “This is my blood.” For, when we receive the 168 | 169 grace coming from the Holy Spirit, [our Lord] wanted us no longer to regard the nature [of the body and blood] but accept them as the body and blood of our Lord. Also the body of our Lord did not naturally possess immortality and [the power] to give immortality, but this was given him by the Holy Spirit. At his resurrection from the dead, he attained to his [full] union with the divine nature, and then became immortal and the cause of others’ becoming immortal.

Footnotes

1. Theodore of Mopsuestia, Frederick G. McLeod, trans., Theodore of Mopsuestia (London: Routledge, 2009), 168-69. ↩︎