So with every assurance, we receive as of the body and blood of Christ. For in the figure of bread is the body given to you, and in the figure of wine the blood is given to you, in order that, having received the body and blood of Christ, you may become [his] one body and one blood of Christ. For in this way we become “Christ-bearers,” his body and his blood having been given into our bodily members. Thus, according to blessed Peter, we become “sharers of the divine nature” (2 Pet 1.4).
