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Excerpt from The Doctrine of the Church of England on the Holy Communion: Restated as a Guide at the Present Time
The great central act of worship, the great bond of union and fellowship in the Early Church, was Holy Communion. It told of Christ and of God's love in Him; it gave fellowship in and participation of Christ, and through/him it knit together in one all members of His mystical Body - one with Him, and so one with other. It was therefore the great Sunday serv ministered every Lord's day at least, and round it thered all other worship and all other teaching (see cts ii. 46; xx. 7; I Cor. X. 16, I7; Justin M. Ap i. P. Why has it become in later days a feast at which few are gathered, and from the bond of union a battfe-field of strife? The primitive Christians were content to believe that the bread was no longer common bread, nor the wine common wine, but that mysteriously they were the means of convey ing Christ to the Christian the communion or partici patiou (xowcom'a) of His Body, and the communion or participation of His Blood (i Cor. X. 16; Justin M. Apol. I. P. Later ages were not satisfied to believe.
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