If our flesh is not saved, then the Lord has not redeemed us with His Blood, the Eucharistic Chalice does not make us sharers in His Blood, and the bread we break does not make us sharers in His Body. There can be no blood without veins, flesh and the rest of the human substance, and this the Word of God actually became: it was with His Own Blood that He redeemed us. As the Apostle says: In Him, through His Blood, we have been redeemed, our sins have been forgiven.

We are His members and we are nourished by creatures, which is His gift to us, for it is He who causes the sun to rise and the rain to fall. He declared that the Chalice, which comes from His creation, was His Blood, and He makes it the nourishment of our blood. He affirmed that the bread, which comes from His creation, was His Body, and He makes it the nourishment of our body. When the chalice we mix and the bread we bake receive the Word of God, the Eucharistic elements become the Body and Blood of Christ, by which our bodies live and grow. How then can it be said that Flesh belonging to the Lord's Own Body and nourished by His Body and Blood is incapable of receiving God's gift of eternal life? St. Paul says in his Letter to the Ephesians that we are members of His Body, of His Flesh and Bones. He is not speaking of some spiritual and incorporeal kind of man, for spirits do not have flesh and bones. He is speaking of a real human body composed of flesh, sinews and bones, nourished by the chalice of Christ's Blood and receiving growth from the bread which is His Body.