Blog Post 4/24/2023 - They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread

  

They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread

In his Treatise on the Love of God, St. Francis de Sales wrote, “Such is infinite happiness and it has not only been promised to us, but we have a pledge of it in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the perpetual feast of divine grace”.

“The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church ….” (#1402 CCC).   In the Catechism of the Catholic Church there are 88 full paragraphs dealing specifically with The Eucharist, there are many more references to the Eucharist throughout the Catechism.

Here are a few more selections from our Catechism to reflect upon.  It states the mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. (#CCC 1374)   It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.” 

In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.”  

 

“This presence is called ‘real’—by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”

 

At the Last Supper Jesus asked the Apostles and us TO REMEMBER HIM, and to do that He gave us: THE EUCHARIST, the Memorial of His Body and Blood.  We remember Him most profoundly in the Eucharist.

 

May God Be Praised.