The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.
Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.
Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.