A kind of antidote...

"From the Eucharist comes 

strength to live the Christian life and 

zeal to share that life with others." 

St John Paul II

 

 

"The Eucharist is like a beating heart giving life

to the mystical Body of the Church ... Without the

Eucharist the Church would simply cease to exist. ...

 

 

The Holy Spirit, which transforms the bread and wine

into the Body and Blood of Christ, also transforms

those who receive it with faith into limbs of Christ's Body,

thus the Church truly is a Sacrament of men's unity,

with God and with one another.  In an increasingly

individualistic culture such as that in which we live in western

societies and which is tending to spread throughout the world,

the Eucharist constitutes a kind of 'antidote',

working on the hearts and minds of believers and

continually infusing them with the logic of communion,

service and sharing, the logic of the Gospel."

 

Pope Benedict XVI 

26 June 2011, Angelus