Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"By his command to 'do this in remembrance of me' (Lk 22:19; 1 Cor11:25), he asks us to respond to his gift and to make it sacramentally present." -Pope Benedict XVI
Virtue Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"As we contemplate the vast amount of work to be done, we are sustained by our faith that God is present alongside those who come together in his name to work for justice." -Pope Benedict XVI
Virtue Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"Development must include not just material growth but also spiritual growth, since the human person is a 'unity of body and soul', born of God’s creative love and destined for eternal life." -Pope Benedict XVI
Virtue Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. " -Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"The institution of the Eucharist demonstrates how Jesus' death, for all its violence and absurdity, became in him a supreme act of love and mankind's definitive deliverance from evil." -Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"In instituting the sacrament of the Eucharist, Jesus anticipates and makes present the sacrifice of the Cross and the victory of the resurrection. At the same time, he reveals that he himself is the true sacrificial lamb." -Pope Benedict XVI
Virtue Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"The more we strive to secure a common good corresponding to the real needs of our neighbors, the more effectively we love them." -Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"Jesus Christ, who 'through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God' (Heb 9:14), makes us, in the gift of the Eucharist, sharers in God's own life." -Pope Benedict XVI
Virtue Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"Charity goes beyond justice, because to love is to give, to offer what is 'mine' to the other; but it never lacks justice, which prompts us to give the other what is 'his', what is due to him by reason of his being or his acting. I cannot 'give' what is mine to the other [...]
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"The Eucharist reveals the loving plan that guides all of salvation history." -Pope Benedict XVI