Which is shed for many.—Better, is being shed, the participle, both here and in Saint Matthew, being in the pres…

There was no fear of their making the mistake, which had been made by Humanists, of taking these words literally, because Jesus Christ was sitting …

The Venerable Bede: When the rites of the old Passover were finished, He passed to the new, in order to substitute the Sacramen…

The cup Jesus referred to is the third cup of the Passover meal, which was drunk after the meal was eaten. Again Jesus gave thanks (the verb is euc…

This is my blood. I have already remarked that when we are told that the blood is to be shed—according to the narrative of Matthe…

And he said to them: Not after they had drank of it, but before, and as he gave it to them:

this is my…

The Lord's supper is food for the soul; therefore, a very little of that which is for the body, as much as will serve for a sign, is enough. It was…