Original sentence: " Wills cites Augustine's Sermon 227, noting that for Augustine "that what is changed in the Mass is not the bread given out but the believers receiving it".Other commentators, such as Roman Catholic historian and journalist Garry Wills, believe that during the patristic period the Eucharist ("Thanksgiving") was simply a celebration of the people's oneness at the "one altar", suggesting that such a meaning of the "body of Christ" would "persist as late as the fourth and fifth centuries, in Augustine's denial of the real presence of Jesus in the elements of the meal