Everything has its origin in God's love, everything is shaped by it, everything is directed towards it. Love is God's greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope. Source: ÿPope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth)
The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist. Source: ÿCatechism of the Catholic Church #1322
Levity is an act; joy, a habit. Source: ÿVen. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments
At every celebration of the Eucharist, we are spiritually brought back to the paschal Triduum: to the events of the evening of Holy Thursday, to the Last Supper and to what followed it. Source: ÿPope St. John Paul II, Papal Encyclical: Ecclesia De Eucharista, 4/17/2003
That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin. Source: Brother Lawrence,ÿThe Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims
We can thus understand how agape also became a term for the Eucharist: there God's own agape comes to us bodily, in order to continue his work in us and through us. Source: Pope Benedict XVI,ÿDeus Caritas Est