St. John 6.44-51: "I am the living bread come down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh".
"Christ, our Lord and God, was once for all to offer himself to God the Father through his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper, 'on the night when he was betrayed', he wanted to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world and it salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of sins we daily commit" (Council of Trent).
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