# Quotes from Church Fathers

On the Real Presence and Daily Reception

And we ask that this Bread be given us daily, so that we who are in Christ and daily receive the Eucharist as the food of salvation, may not, by falling into some more grievous sin and then in abstaining from communicating, be withheld from the heavenly Bread, and be separated from Christ’s Body… He Himself warns us, saying, ‘Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you shall not have life in you.

The Lord’s Prayer, 252 A.D., Chapter 18

On the Sacrificial Nature of the Eucharist

For if Jesus Christ, Himself the chief priest… first offered Himself a sacrifice to the Father, and has commanded this to be done in commemoration of Himself, certainly that priest truly discharges the office of Christ, who imitates what Christ did; and he then offers a true and perfect sacrifice in the Church to God the Father.

Letter to the Ephesians, c. 258 A.D.

On the Sanctity of the Eucharist

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian, p.405 .