A chara, – Liam Meehan has it mostly right in his mocking letter about Christian beliefs (October 28th). But he’s wrong when he says we “symbolically” eat the flesh of Christ. Relying on Christ’s words in John 6:55, “My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink”, the Catholic Church teaches that the bread and wine really and substantially become the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. – Is mise,
KIERON WOOD,
Grange Wood,
Rathfarnham,
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Dublin 16.