Eucharist
“Taking part in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the source and the summit of the Christian life, the people and the priest offer the Divine victim to God and themselves along with it. And so it is that, both in the offering and in Holy Communion, each in his own way…has his own part to play in the liturgical action. Then, strengthened by the body of Christ in the Eucharistic Communion, they manifest in a concrete way that unity of the people of God which this holy sacrament aptly signifies and admirably realizes.” From the Documents of Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, no 11
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