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The Eucharist
 


The kinds of service that we can render to our neighbour in everyday life, with a bit of attention, are many and varied. The Eucharist thus becomes the source of spiritual energy that renews our life each day, and in this way also renews the world in Christ's love.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
25 September 2005

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


In the Eucharist the Lord gives himself to us in his body, soul and divinity, and we become one with him and with others. Our response to his love must then be concrete and expressed in an authentic conversion to love, in forgiveness, in welcoming one another and being attentive to the needs of everyone.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
25 September 2005

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


Faithful to Christ’s command to “do this in memory of me” (Lk 22:19), the Church in every time and place celebrates the Eucharist until the Lord returns in glory, rejoicing in his sacramental presence and drawing upon the power of his saving sacrifice for the redemption of the world.

 
Homily
Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood
of Our Lord Jesus Christ

City of Westminster, UK

18 September 2010

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


In the Eucharistic celebration, we do not invent something, but we enter into a reality that precedes us, more than that, which embraces heaven and earth and, hence, also the past, the future and the present. This universal openness, this encounter with all the sons and daughters of God is the grandeur of the Eucharist: We go to meet the reality of God present in the body and blood of the Risen One among us.

 
Address
Convention of the Diocese of Rome
Basilica of St. John Lateran
6 June, 2005

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


In the mystery of the Eucharist, at Mass and during silent adoration before the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, that you will meet him in a privileged way. By opening your very being and your whole life under the gaze of Christ, you will not be crushed – quite the contrary: you will discover that you are infinitely loved.

 
Video message for youth
International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec
June 2008

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


The Eucharist is also Jesus Christ, future, Jesus Christ to come. When we contemplate the sacred host, His glorious transfigured and risen Body, we contemplate what we shall contemplate in eternity, where we shall discover that the whole world has been carried by its Creator during every second of its history. Each time we consume Him, but also each time we contemplate Him, we proclaim Him until He comes again, 'donec veniat'. That is why we receive Him with infinite respect.

 
Address, Procession
Grotto of Lourdes
France
14 September 2008

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


Looking closely at this little piece of white Host, this bread of the poor appears to us as a synthesis of creation. Heaven and earth, too, like the activity and spirit of man, cooperate. The synergy of the forces that make the mystery of life and the existence of man possible on our poor planet come to meet us in all of their majestic grandeur.

 
Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Basilica of St John Lateran
Rome
15 June 2006

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


Through Christ’s gratuitous suffering and death, he became bread for all of us, and with this, living and certain hope. He accompanies us in all of our sufferings until death. The paths that he travels with us and through which he leads us to life are pathways of hope.

 
Homily
Solemnity of the Sacred Body
and Blood of Christ
St John Lateran
15 June 2006

 

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