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Chapter Five of Pope Benedict's collection of sermons of the Eucharist, God is Near Us, concerns the real presence of Christ in the Eucharistic sacrament. Benedict begins with Jesus's “bread of life” discourse from the Gospel of John where Jesus announces that He is the bread of life.

The Catholic church was a central focus for our family growing up. My father was the custodian of our church, cemetery, and our new parochial school which I attended...

I looked up the word Eucharist in the dictionary and the dictionary defined it as, the central Christian rite in which bread and wine are consecrated...