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The Eucharist
 


The Eucharistic commemoration does us so much good: it is not an abstract, cold and superficial memory, but a living remembrance that comforts us with God’s love.

 
Homily
18 June 2017

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


The Eucharist joins heaven and earth; it embraces and penetrates all creation.

 
On Care for Our Common Home
'Laudato Si'

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


The Lord comes to meet us with a loving “fragility”, which is the Eucharist.  In the Bread of Life, the Lord comes to us, making himself a humble meal that lovingly heals our memory, wounded by life’s frantic pace of life.

 
Homily
18 June 2017

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


In the Bread of Life, the Lord comes to us, making himself a humble meal that lovingly heals our memory, wounded by life’s frantic pace of life. The Eucharist is the memorial of God’s love.

 
Homily
18 June 2017

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


Joined to the Incarnate Son present in the Eucharist, the whole cosmos gives thanks to God. Indeed, the Eucharist is itself and act of cosmic love.

 
On Care for Our Common Home
'Laudato Si'

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


It is in the Eucharist that all that has been created finds its greatest exaltation. It is the living center of the universe, the overflowing core of love and of inexhaustible love.

 
On Care for Our Common Home
'Laudato Si'

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


While we are nourished by Christ, the Eucharist which we celebrate transforms us too, step by step, into the Body of Christ and spiritual food for our brothers and sisters.

 
General Audience
17 August 2016

 
 
 
The Eucharist
 


“Do this in remembrance of me”. Jesus was broken; he is broken for us. And he asks us to give ourselves, to break ourselves, as it were, for others. This “breaking bread” became the icon, the sign for recognizing Christ and Christians.

 
Homily
26 May 2016

 

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