Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Cycle A
Could a body broken and blood spilled 2,000 years ago restore my own damaged life?
—Frederica Mathewes-Green
The culmination of the Mass is not the consecration, but communion.
—Saint Maximilian Kolbe
In the same way that bread comes from the Earth, after having received the invocation, is no longer ordinary bread, but Eucharist, made up of two things, one earthly, one heavenly, so our bodies which participate in the Eucharist . . . have the hope of the Resurrection.
—Saint Irenaeus of Lyons