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“I can’t speak for the Catholics, but in my church, we don’t believe in the transubstantiation”

“The what?”

“When the bread and wine are literally transformed into flesh and blood In our church, it’s for remembrance It reenacts the Last Supper So it honors Christ’s sacrifice And it’s one of the few traditions we have that Jesus actually set into oes all the way back That is a this sa streaenerations”

“Okay, I can see re-creating the Last Supper, but why drink Jesus’s blood?”

“That’s always seemed very powerful to me, the blood Just the whole physical nature of it Did you know that soht the blood contained the soul? They saw that when people died they lost their color, so they figured their ani spirit must be in the blood So if you drink fro Jesus a part of you, not just in your mind, in your spirit, but in your body So he’s part of your physical being and your everyday life”

“In your body… I just… It sounds nice but I don’t really knohat that means”

“That’s okay”

“No, but I’ to you I’ to understand why”

“I

don’t want to preach to you I don’t want you to think that’s why I’m here”

“You’re not I’”

“Okay, the body of Christ Well, it’s about being nourished by his sacrifice You’rethe essence of Christ part of you It’s about destruction and rebirth The way the tree that falls in the woods decays and nourishes the flowers Jesus was a man and existed in a physical body, but he doesn’t any in us Christianity is about resurrection Or at least it is for me Different churches focus on different parts of the story The cross, it’s a difficult symbol because it hat the Romans used for torture, but it’s been transformed Now it’s a sy I think that means, is that everyone has a chance to be reborn You don’t have to get it right the first time You start where you are Everybody deserves a second chance”

“Hmm,” Ian said He turned his eyes upward to the left and took another drag on his cigarette He was thinking about what Paul had said, and he seemed to like what he heard

“You told o to?”

“Pentecostal Real fire and brimstone stuff”