St John 6.30-35: "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty".
"What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ, a flesh 'given life and giving life through the power of the Holy Spirit', preserves, increases and renews the life of grace received in Baptism. This growth in Christian life needs the nourishment of Eucharistic Communion the bread for our pilgrimage until the moment of death, when it will be given to us as viaticum" (CCC#1392).
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