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If man eats ordinary bread, in the digestive process this bread becomes part of his body, transformed into a substance of human life; but in Holy Communion the inverse process is brought about. Christ, the Lord, assimilates us into himself, introducing us into his glorious Body, and thus we all become his Body.
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
10 December 2008
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Christ gives us his Body in the Eucharist, he gives himself in his Body and thus makes us his Body, he unites us with his Risen Body.
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
10 December 2008
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St. Paul says: "the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the Blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the Body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (10: 16-17). In these words the personal and social character of the Sacrament of the Eucharist likewise appears. Christ personally unites himself with each one of us, but Christ himself is also united with the man and the woman who are next to me. And the bread is for me but it is also for the other. Thus Christ unites all of us with himself and all of us with one another. In communion we receive Christ. But Christ is likewise united with my neighbor: Christ and my neighbor are inseparable in the Eucharist. And thus we are all one bread and one body.
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
10 December 2008
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Because Christ really gives his Body and makes us his Body. We really become united with the Risen Body of Christ and thereby are united with one another.
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
10 December 2008
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From the heart of Christ, from his "Eucharistic Prayer" on the eve of his passion, flows the dynamism that transforms reality in its cosmic, human, and historical dimensions.
All proceeds from God, from the omnipotence of his love, One and Triune, incarnate in Jesus. In this Love, the heart of Christ emerges; He knows how to thank and praise God even in the face of betrayal and violence, and thus changes things, people, and the world.
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Homily
Mass for Corpus Christi
St John Lateran
Rome
23 June 2011
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| The Eucharist |
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Celebrating the Eucharist means that Christ gives us himself, his love, to configure us to himself and thereby to create the new world.
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
10 December 2008
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After having adored the Son of God made man lying in the manger, we are called to move on to the altar of the sacrifice where Christ, the living Bread Who descended from heaven, offers Himself to us as true nourishment for eternal life. We have seen this with our own eyes, at the table of the Word and the Bread of Life; we have contemplated it and touched it with our hands: the Word made flesh. Let us announce it joyfully to the world and bear generous witness to it with all our lives.
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General Audience
5 January 2011
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Eucharistic communion unites me to the person next to me, and with whom I might not even have a good relationship, but also to my brothers and sisters who are far away, in every corner of the world…Those who recognize Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, recognize their brother who suffers, who is hungry and thirsty, who is a stranger, naked, sick, imprisoned, and they are attentive to every person, committing themselves, in a concrete way, to those who are in need.
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General Audience
St Peter's Square
1 June 2011
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