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| As Guidelines makes clear, this Eucharistic Prayer "is one of the most ancient anaphoras, dating back to the time of the very early church," even though the consecratory words "This is my body. Sacramental theology, we are informed, "needs to question the very notion of a consecratory formula. In support of their view, medieval glossators were fond of citing patristic authorities, especially Ambrose, who in his sermons to the newly baptized seemed similarly to insist on the consecratory power of Christ's words (the verba Verbi). |
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