Catholic. What it means to me to be a Eucharistic minister, and how it changed my life. I understand how St. Stephen must have felt, carring the Body of Christ to others in prison. The reality of understanding what he was carrying, caused him to die, rather than reveal to the Romans what he was bringing to others. There is no reason to die for something that "represents" the Body of Christ, he died at the hands of the Romans, because he knew he was carrying the actual Body of Christ.