Christianity made a series of related changes in the way that it performed the eucharistic celebration from the late third century onward that, it seems to me, whatever their merit in the shift from late antiquity to the medieval period, now serve to disconnect us from what the eucharist is and means. To give a brief account of those changes: the euchar…
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