{"id":182,"date":"2019-07-24T02:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrupcik\/?p=182"},"modified":"2019-07-24T02:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:26:54","slug":"sweet-taste-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrupcik\/sweet-taste-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet taste of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is bread? At its simplest it is merely a paste of flour or meal and water cooked over or surrounded by heat. More complex breads are leavened in various ways and contain salt and other ingredients, particularly fat and sugar.
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Bread presented by the faithful for the Eucharist but not used for that purpose was called the eulogia<\/em>. The bishop blessed it and had it distributed to catechumens and to absent members of the community. By the fourth century, Christians were sending the eulogia<\/em> to one another as a symbol of their union.<\/p> Modern Theology<\/em> , 2019<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Bread as a symbol has also had negative aspects. The good wife does not eat the «bread of idleness» (Prv<\/em>. 31:27). The ungodly «eat the bread of wickedness» (Prv<\/em>. 4:17). The «bread of deceit» has a sweet taste but leaves the mouth full of gravel (Prv<\/em>. 20:17). <\/p>\n\n\n\n