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“The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also… In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate” quote by Pope Leo XIII — Download Open image

“The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also… In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate”

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