The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""COMMUNION UNDER ONE KIND. 343in the Lord s Supper, under the form of either breador wine, we profane both the body and the blood ofChrist. How could this be so, unless Christ isentirely contained under each species?So forcibly,indeed, did the Apostle assert the Catholic doctrine,that the Protestant translators have perverted thetext by rendering it "Whosoever shall eat this:bread and drink the chalice," substituting and foror, in contradiction to the Greek original, of whichthe Catholic version is an exact translation.It is also the received doctrine of the Fathers,that the Eucharist is contained in all its integrityeither in the consecrated bread or in the chalice.St. Augustine who may be taken as a sample of therest, says that each one receives Christ the Lordlentire under each particle."Luther himself, even after his revolt, was so clearly convinced of this truth, that he was an uncompromising advocate of communion under one kind.If"any Council," he says, should decree or permitboth species, we would by no means acquiesce ; but,in spite of the Council and its statute, we would useone form, or neither, and never both." aLeibnitz, the eminent Protestant divine, observes:"It, cannot be denied that Christ is received entire byvirtue of concomitance, under each species; nor isHis flesh *separated from His blood."As the same virtue is contained in the Sacrament,1Aug. De consec. 2dist. De formula Missae.8Systema TheoL, p. 250.