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Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana)/Book 1 · Confessio Augustana
Chapter 10ConfAug.1.10

De Coena Domini

The True Presence

The body and blood of Christ are truly present and distributed in the Lord's Supper, and contrary teaching is rejected.

Regarding the Lord's Supper, they teach that the body and blood of Christ are truly present and are distributed to those who eat at the Lord's Supper, and they reject those who teach otherwise.

Read the original Latin

De Coena Domini docent, quod corpus et sanguis Christi vere adsint, et distribuantur vescentibus in Coena Domini, et improbant secus docentes.

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