Bread and Wine Summary

Catholic priest Don Benedetto, opened by Ignazio Silone novel Bread and Wine, is sitting outside his modest house. This is his 75th birthday and he is waiting for some former students to celebrate this opportunity. Don Benedetto was a socialist in Fascist Italy in the early 1930s and refused to seek a compromise from the regime. A new war on the expansion of the African empire comes

Three former students arrived. Everyone has a place of new social order, and the pastor unfortunately reflects the moral compromise that people will make to survive. Then the conversation was directed to former students and classmates Pietro Spina who did not compromise. As a student, he is an idealist, considerate, and very faithful to justice. He became a socialist, later expelled to various places in Europe, where he lived and worked under harsh conditions. It is said that he recently returned to Italy to work for Communists.

The scene moved to Spina's hometown, in fact, he returned here. He was very sick and hidden by former comrades. When he was able to move, Spina left the village to pretend to be a pastor named Don Paul Spada. As a dong pole, Spina leaves for the mountain village of Pietro Sekka in the Abruzzo region. Along the way, he encountered a young, unmarried woman, Bianchina, who apparently died of miscarriages and mental pain due to complications caused by fear of a permanent curse. In touch with compassion, "Tang Paul" told her that everything was forgiven

The next day, Don Paul went to a hotel in Pietrosek. There, he wanted the air of the mountain to help him recover. The life of Pietrosecca is very difficult; farmers are poor, extremely superstitious, politically innocent, and they do not want to change their situation. There is only one family of substances, the Colamartini family. Miraculously resurrected Bianquin came to Pietro Sekka and are looking for a thoughtful pastor who will save his life. When they talked, Christina Colamartini came and two young ladies acknowledged each other as former students. Don Paolo has a complex relationship with two women. Bianquin

According to the teachings of the Catholic Church, the whole Christ, the body and the blood, the soul and the divinity are in the Eucharist, every aspect of bread and wine, every part of bread and wine (the essence of bread or wine lies in ordinary In every part of bread and wine, the essence of Christ is in every part of the devotion and change of the Lord and the communion, not the communion, but when the sanctuary is moved, not the impression or the imagination, the intellectuals It is only perceived through the eyes of.

He came to us in the sacrament of the Eucharist. He puts his body and blood in regular bread and wine. We can watch bread and wine and smell. You can taste bread and wine by touching it. Bread and wine We can eat and drink. We consume sacrifices instead of ourselves. When we eat them, bread and wine bind us, and his body and blood bind us. He believes in the word he promised "Dedicate it to you for forgiveness of sin." He forgives our sins. He strengthened our faith. He reinforces our weak soul. He gave us a new life and eternal salvation

Bread and wine do not separate the "elements" of dinner. They go to wine in turn from bread. This sequence imitates the natural progress of human life. We started a new day at the bread and finished it with wine. We can bake bread in a few hours; wine needs cultivation, preparation, and aging for many years. As James Jordan said, bread is an alpha food and wine is an omega drink. Bread is native and wine is eschatological. The communion wine makes it possible for us to understand the good things of the future, the pleasures flowing from the heavenly broken bread. Natural foods are digested and become us. Thomas Aquinas said that spiritual food is the opposite: it turns us into ourselves. Accepting bread, we become bread of the world. After drinking the blood of the grapes, we will summon to follow him according to the testimony of Christ's suffering.