Matt Kottman

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the real change came on Easter Day, 1525. Instead of celebrating Mass, plain bread rolls were placed on wooden plates on a simple table in the middle of the church; next to them was a jug of wine. No Latin was intoned; everything was in the Swiss German the people could understand. Then, for the first time, the people, while still seated in their pews, were given not only the bread but also the wine. And with that, no longer receiving the sacraments of the Roman church, the break with Rome was complete.
The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
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