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Mater et Magistra §5 — Tolle Lege

Encyclicals (Pre-V2)

Pope John XXIII

Mater et Magistra §5

Mater et Magistra: On Christianity and Social Progress

⁵ Bread it was for the body, but it was intended also to foreshadow that other bread, that heavenly food of the soul, which He was to give them on "the night before He suffered."

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Source: Mater et Magistra (Vatican.va)