St. Ignatius of Antioch- Pray for us
St. Ignatius on the Eucharist from the Letter to the Ephesians (#20)
If Jesus Christ, yielding to your prayer, grants me the favor and it is his will, I shall in the subsequent letter which I intend to write to you, still further explain the dispensation which here I have only touched upon, regarding the New Man Jesus Christ- a dispensation founded on faith in him and love for him, on his Passion and Resurrection, I will do so especially if the Lord should reveal to me that you – the entire community of you! -are in the habit, through grace derived from the name, of meeting in common, aminated by the one faith and in union with Christ Jesus- who in the flesh was of the line of David, the Son of Man and the Son of God- of meeting, I say to show obedience with undivided mind to the bishop and the presbytery, and to break the same Bread, which is the medicine of immortality, the antidote against death and everlasting life in Jesus Christ
