Worship: Irenaeus on the Eucharist as Thanksgiving
Teaching on Worship from Irenaeus of Lyon: Irenaeus on the Eucharist as Thanksgiving
This is a spiritual discipline on eucharist and thanksgiving, drawing on 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 26:26-28 and Acts 2:42.
Irenaeus of Lyon (d. c. 202) taught that the Eucharist is fundamentally an act of thanksgiving -- the Greek word "eucharistia" means "thanksgiving." He wrote: "How can they say that the bread over which thanks have been given is the body of their Lord, and the cup His blood, if they do not acknowledge Him as the Son of the Creator of the world?"…
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