Sir, - It has always seemed to me, born outside the Christian tradition, that the only difference between the Roman Catholic and the Anglican belief with regard to the Eucharist is that between a metaphor and a simile. To say that the bread and wine (symbolically) become the body and blood of Christ is the former, while to say that they symbolise, or are partaken of as if they were, the body and blood of Christ, is the latter.
Surely then the difference is a simple matter of grammar? - Yours, etc.,
Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4.
