For My Flesh is real food,
and My Blood is real drink. - John 6:55
"When Our Lord Himself declares, as our faith
teaches us, that His flesh is food indeed,
what room can remain for doubt concerning
the Real Presence of His Body and Blood?"
St Hilary of Poitiers
300 - 368
Bishop and Doctor of the Church
"Hammer of the Arians"
A favorite motto of St. Hilary:
Ministros veritatis decet vera proferre,
"Servants of the truth ought speak the truth."
Feast Day - January 13
This is how Hilary summed up the problem
with the Arian heretics* of the fourth century:
"They didn't know who they were."
*Arius, whose followers were called Arians, felt that God created Christ, not of his own matter. This meant, in his opinion, that Christ was not God and was not divine. Therefore, worshipping Christ would be tantamount to worshipping another god, and this specifically went against God’s teaching that He alone should be worshipped.
St Hilary, pray for us!
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