Sentences with phrase «bread and wine today»

It evolved from a supper with Jesus to a little bit of bread and wine today.

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Said stories were so popular that they grew into a religion known today as Catholicism / Christianity and featuring dark - age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

This could become a burning issue today if the «strong» were to maintain that all kinds of food and drink may be eaten and drunk at the Lord's Supper while the «weak» declared that only a little consecrated bread and wine may be taken.

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John Leith, in Introduction to Reformed Tradition, writes: «It is probably impossible today to realize the spiritual excitement of the congregation when [under Zwingli] for the firsttime, believers passed the bread and the wine among themselves using wooden plates and cups.»

The species of wheat that we in the West use for bread only developed in the last few thousand years as a result of two episodes of sympatric speciation (different to selective breeding, but an agent of evolution none the less) and the various Shiraz, Char.donnay and Pinot Noir gra.pes we enjoy today, in the form of wine, were all developed and perfected in the last 100 years or so.

So at the Altar at Mass (Holy Communion) Jesus took bread and wine, and said «This is my Body — this is my Blood» and we can not change to a hamburger and coke because that is the most popular food today.