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Justin defends his fellow Christians against the charges of atheism and hostility to the Roman state. He then goes on to express the core of his Christian philosophy: the highest aspiration of both Christianity and Platonic philosophy is a transcendent and unchangeable God -
Ignatius of Antioch, one of the Apostolic fathers, mentions the Eucharist as the flesh of our savior Jesus Christ. -
the Didache(Greek, meaning teaching) is an early church treatise that includes instructions for baptism and the Eucharist. -
Around the fourth century these various rituals and customs began to coalesce into local traditions around the major cities; these traditions developed into what we now call liturgical rites.
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the fourth council of the lateran in 1215 had spoken of jesus christ whose body and blood are contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine.
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in the 1st century and much later in some areas that the Eucharist and the last supper became placed in a relation of dependence
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the cup/bread liturgy of the Didache, from the Jerusalem tradition does not mention Passover or last supper or death of Jesus/blood/body and the sequence is meal+ thanksgiving ritual.