The Burning Coal: Thomas Aquinas on Loving and Eating Christ in the Eucharist

Abstract

I truly believe and know for certain that this is true God and man, the Son of God the Father and of the Virgin mother, and so I believe in my soul and confess in words what is stated by the priest about this most holy sacrament. . . . I receive you, price of the redemption of my soul; I receive you, viaticum of my pilgrimage, for the love of whom I have studied, kept vigil, and labored. You I have preached and taught; I have never said anything against you.1