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holds fast to this literal revelation: “For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.” This revelation is completed at the Last Supper when Christ — using words to be taken literally — says over simple bread and wine, “This is my body” and “This is my blood.” The Eucharist!
The superabundance of bread Christ offers us is his very self under the appearances of mere bread and wine at Holy Mass. If the multiplication of the loaves reveals the compassion of Christ, it ultimately directs our attention to an abundance that will never fail. For “he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Any abundance of bread cannot be more useful than that.
Father Pokorsky is the priest assigned to St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Washington.
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