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1324 - The Eucharist is " the source and summit of the Christian life."
1325 - "The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in
the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being.
It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the
worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit."
1362 - The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the making present and the
sacramental offering of his unique sacrifice, in the liturgy of the Church which is His
Body. In all the Eucharistic Prayers we find after the words of institution a prayer
called the anamnesis or memorial.
1407 - The Eucharist is the heart and summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ
associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving
offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces
of salvation on his Body which is the Church.
1389 - The Church warmly recommends that the faithful receive Holy Communion each time
they participate in the celebration of the Eucharistic; she obliges them to do so at least
once a year.
1411 - Only validly ordained priests can preside at the Eucharist and consecrate the brad
and the wine so that they become the Body and Blood of the Lord.
1391 - Holy Communion augments our union with Christ. The principal fruit of receiving the
Eucharist in Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus. Indeed the Lord said:
" He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him." Life in
Christ has its foundation in the Eucharistic banquet. " As the living Father sent me,
and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me."
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