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Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body.¹⁴⁹ Cf. 1 Cor 10: 16-17. We also call it: the holy things (ta hagia; sancta)¹⁵⁰ Apostolic Constitutions 8, 13,12 PG 1,1108PG — Patrologia Graeca (Migne); Didache 9, 5; 10:6: SChSCh — Sources Chrétiennes (patristic critical-edition series): 248,176- 178. - the first meaning of the phrase "communion of saints" in the Apostles' Creed - the bread of angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality,¹⁵¹ St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2 SCh 10, 76SCh — Sources Chrétiennes (patristic critical-edition series). viaticum....