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  • Tertullian uses the actual word, reservare, and seems to suggest that a man who scrupled to break his fast on a fast day might approach the Holy Table and carry the Blessed Sacrament away with him to consume it later on – "accepto corpore Domini et reservato, utrumque salvum est, et participatio sacramenti et executio officii" ( "De orat.",

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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