Where the Body Is, There We Gather
The Lord, condescending to us in every way and perfecting the nourishment of spiritual food co-naturally with natural food, so that we may desire this food more greatly, has placed in it himself, in whom is life as in the Father from whom all life flows, to make us to live interiorly in himself, who is the principle of our lives in grace and in glory: As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he who eats me, he shall also live by me (Jn 6:57). So this nourishing food of life carries the life of grace to us, and it carries the life of glory to the blessed, which was signified when God planted the tree of life in the midst of paradise (Gn 2:9).
The Lord Jesus Christ presents himself in the life-giving sacrament in the midst of the Church to all who, nourished by him, receive from him the same life by which he lives. For since…life is continually flowing from the serene being which is the fount of life into those things which are alive, it is clear that this nourishment of life is the food in which the Father pours forth life into the Son, and the Son, having life in himself, pours life into the sacrament, and then the sacrament pours life into us.
Saint Albert the Great
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