YOU have just been reborn of water and the spirit—that is why you are called infants—and so you look at this food and drink on this table of the Lord's in an altogether new light, and regard it with fresh feelings of love and reverence. And now the duty of preaching a sermon, and the care I have spent in giving birth to you so that Christ might be formed m you, compels me to explain to you what it means, what it is about—this great and divine sacrament, this noble and superlative medicine, this clean and simple sacrifice, which is now offered, no longer in just one city, the earthly Jerusalem, nor in the tabernacle which Moses or the temple which Solomon constructed (these were just shadows of things to come); no, now it is sacrificed from ‘the rising of the sun to its setting’ as the prophets foretold, and it is offered to God as a victim of praise according to the grace of the new covenant.