ABSTRACT
Most churches are architecturally simple as buildings. But their meaning is not simple. When Germanus speaks of it as ‘the House of God, the Body of Christ. Its name is “the Bride of Christ”,’ 1 the reader’s reaction to these similes may be simply muddled. But it all depends what language one is expecting to hear. Germanus’s statement is not logic. It is the poetry of meditation. In examining the symbolism of the Church during the second part of the Eucharist we shall find that objects had quite a different meaning from what they stood for in the first part.
