A few weeks ago we considered the words of Gaudentius of Brescia, who pondered the image of bread as a symbol for the Church. Like individual grains of wheat, we are brought together by water (baptism), but flour and water are not truly bread until they are baked in fire (the Holy Spirit). Last week in the Breviary, another Church Father, Didymus of Alexandria, combined the images of fire and water, comparing the Church to a vessel of clay…
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