Bread does not go into the belly, to be cast out into the privy. Rather, it is
distributed through your whole system, for the benefit of body and soul.”
23 (Mystagogic 5), 21
“In approaching, therefore, do not come up with your wrists apart or with your
fingers spread, but make of your left hand a throne for the right, since you are
about to receive into it a king. And having hollowed your palm, receive the Body of
Christ, saying over it Amen. Then, after cautiously sanctifying your eyes by the
touch of the Holy Body, partake, being careful lest you lose anything of it. For
whatever you might lose is clearly a loss to you from one of your own members.
Tell me: if someone gave you some grains of gold, would you not hold them with
all carefulness, lest you might lose something of them and thereby suffer a loss?
Will you not, therefore, be much more careful in keeping watch over what is more
precious than gold and gems, so that not a particle of it may escape you?”
23 (Mystagogic 5), 22
“Then, after you have communicated yourself of the Body of Christ, come forward
also to the cup of His Blood, not reaching out with your hands, but bowing; and in
an attitude of worship and reverence say the Amen, and sanctify yourself by
partaking also of the Blood of Christ. And while the moisture of it still adheres to
your lips, touch it with your hands and sanctify your eyes and forehead and the rest
of your senses. Then, while awaiting the prayer, give thanks to God, who has
deemed you worthy of such great Mysteries,”
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