"While teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum, Jesus said: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever." (John 6:53-58)

"At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us." (Taken from Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1323 )

(Read more from the Catechism) 

Read more from the Holy Bible

• Exodus 16:15
• Malachi 1:11
• John 6:27-71
• Matthew 26:26-28
• Mark 14:22-24
• Luke 22:19-20
• 1 Corinthians 11:23-27
• Acts 2:42
• Acts 20:7
• 1 Corinthians 10:16-22 

Eucharist at The Cathedral-Basilica

First Communion for Children:
Formation and celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Eucahrist is a two year process. This sacrament preparation begins in the 1st grade and is continued in the Second grade.  For more information, call 671-477-1842 / 472-6201.

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