Heidelberg Catechism, 76-80: Lord's Supper & Popish Mass

The Heidelberg
Catechism

As one Dutch
Elder once said, “This Catechism is the heart cry from the pew!”Question 76. What
is it then to eat the crucified body, and drink the shed blood of Christ?


Answer: It is not only to embrace with
believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ and thereby to obtain
the pardon of sin, and life eternal; (a) but also, besides that, to become more

Luminarium: "Martin Bucer" (1491-1551)

http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/bucer.htm





MARTIN BUCER (or Butzer), German Protestant reformer,
was born in 1491 at Schlettstadt in Alsace. In 1506 he entered the Dominican
order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with the
works of Erasmus and Luther, and was present at a
disputation of the latter with some of the Romanist doctors. He became a