QUOTES BY OTHER FAITHFUL MEN & WOMEN
No Christian community can be built up unless it has as its basis and pivot the celebration of the holy Eucharist. It is from this therefore that any attempt to form a community must begin. – Decree on the Ministry and the Life of a Priest
Well if [the Eucharist] is a symbol, to Hell with it. – Flannery O’Connor
Since Christ himself has declared the bread to be his body, who can have any further doubt? Since he himself has said quite categorically, This is my blood, who would dare to question it and say that it is not his blood? – Jerusalem Catechesis
This is how we should receive Holy Communion: seeing it as an encounter with Jesus, an encounter with God himself, who leads us to the sources of true life. – Pope Benedict XVI
It must never be forgotten that our reception of Baptism and Confirmation is ordered to the Eucharist. – Pope Benedict XVI
