medicine of immortality

Jesus comes with that medicine of immortality to us as we celebrate the Sacrament today.

Rather than prolonging death, he said, baptism offers the "medicine of immortality."

Jesus is the Great Physician and in his veins, the medicine of immortality.

He explained the Taoist philosophy and the many ways to prolong life and was honest in saying there was no secret medicine of immortality.

Changchun, had been invited to satisfy the interest of Genghis Khan in "the philosopher's stone" and the secret medicine of immortality.

He stressed the value of the Eucharist, calling it a "medicine of immortality" (Ignatius to the Ephesians 20:2).

There is a Chinese tradition that the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, sent several hundred people to Japan to search for medicines of immortality.

To emphasize the centrality of the Eucharist in the Church, the Pope echoed the words of St. Ignatius of Antioch, referring to the Blessed Sacrament the "medicine of immortality."

Ignatius of Antioch (c 110) called the Eucharist "the medicine of immortality, the antidote we take in order not to die but to live for ever in Jesus Christ" (Letter to the Ephesians, 20:2b).

Known by the saints as the "medicine of immortality and the antidote to death", the Orthodox Church believes that, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, bread and wine truly become the Body and Blood of Christ.

This pattern of governance dates back to the earliest centuries of Christianity, as witnessed by the writings of Ignatius of Antioch (ca. 100 AD): And it is the bishop's primary and distinctive task to celebrate the Eucharist, "the medicine of immortality."

For example, Hexagram 54 of the I Ching, "Returning Maiden", is accompanied by the story of how the maiden Chang'e stole the medicine of immortality from the Xi Wangmu and, upon returning home, used the hexagrams to determine that she should flee to the moon.