In receiving the body of Jesus, we receive the substance of Mary

"The flesh born of Mary, proceeding from the Holy Spirit, is the bread that came down from heaven", declares Saint Hilary of Poitiers. 

And in the 9th-century Bergomense Sacramentary, we read: "Her womb made a fruit ripen, a bread filled us with the angelic gift. Mary has restored to salvation what Eve had destroyed by her fault." 

Saint Peter Damian, for his part, observes: "This body which the most blessed Virgin has begotten, has nourished in her womb with maternal solicitude, this body I say, this one and not another, we now receive from the holy altar and drink its blood as the sacrament of our redemption. This is what the Catholic faith believes, and what the Holy Church faithfully teaches."

Mary is the original, radical cause of the Eucharist; our love is satisfied; for in receiving the body of Jesus, we receive the substance of Mary, who is its first foundation. Fr. de Machault, as learned as he is pious, starts from these principles to tell us, in his ardent faith, that the Eucharist is the most authentic and precious relic of Mary that the earth possesses.

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