We call this food Eucharist

 "We call this food Eucharist; and no one

else is permitted to partake of it, except one who

believes our teaching to be true and who has been

washed in the washing which is for the remission

of sins and for regeneration, and is thereby living

as Christ has enjoined.  For not as common bread

nor common drink do we receive these; but since

Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by

the word of God and had both flesh and blood for

our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the

food which has been made into the Eucharist by

the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the

change of which our blood and flesh is nurtured, is

both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus.”

St. Justin Martyr

 First Apology 66, A.D. 151

 

St Polycarp

Disciple of St John

Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr

69-155 AD

FEAST DAY - February 23

 

Polycarp was denounced to the government, arrested, and tried on the charge of being a Christian. When the proconsul urged him to save his life by cursing Christ,
he replied: “Eighty-six years I have served him, and He never did me any wrong.
How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?” 


Ste Polycarp, ora pro nobis!