“In the institution of the Blessed Eucharist at the Last Supper, … Jesus creates for himself a new form of existence as food for man’s life. As supreme culmination of the work of redemption, God the Word Incarnate takes on the created form of greatest possible vulnerability by becoming edible and potable, in an act of creative anticipation and transformation of what would happen to him physically on Good Friday on the Cross.”
Source:
Fire of Mercy Heart of the Word Volume IV, Gospel of Matthew, by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis
(Ignatius Press 2006), at page 149.
