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This is the Bread of Life

By Catholic Digest on October 8, 2017

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

This is the Bread of Life; he, therefore, who eats life cannot die. For how can he die whose food is life? How can he fail who has the substance of life?

— St. Ambrose

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