"...I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honour for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ through whom all things, whether on the earth or in the heavens, have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God."
- St. Francis (Omnibus of Sources, Letter to all the Faithful)
"...It is really the Spirit of God who dwells in his faithful who receive the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord, Anyone who does not have this Spirit and presumes to receive him eats and drinks judgement to himself (1Cor 11:29). And so we may ask in the words of Scripture, 'Men of rank, how long will you be dull of heart? (Ps 4:3) ... Every day he humbles himself just as he did when he came from his heavenly throne (Wis. 18:15) into the Virgin's womb; every day he comes to us and lets us see him in abjection, when he descends from the bosom of the Father in the hands of the priest at the altar. He shows himself to us in this sacred bread just as he once appeared to his apostles in real flesh. With their own eyes they saw only his flesh, but they believed that we was God, becuse they contemplated him with the eyes of the Spirit. We, too, with our own eyes, see only bread and wine, but we must see further and firmly believe that this is his most holy Body and Blood, living and true. In this way our Lord remains continually with his followers, as he promised, "Behold, I am with you all the days, even unto the consummation fo the world (Mt. 28:20)."
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