Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope St. John Paul II

As St Paul recalls, we must also glorify God in our bodies, that is, in our whole existence, because our bodies are temples of the Spirit who is within us (cf. 1 Cor 6: 19, 20). In this light one can also speak of a cosmic celebration of divine glory. The world created, “so often disfigured by selfishness and greed”, has in itself a “Eucharistic potential”: it is “destined to be assumed in the Eucharist of the Lord, in his Passover, present in the sacrifice of the altar” (Orientale lumen, n. 11).