Writer's Wednesday -- Benedict XVI

Benedict really is a poet... and he teaches so compactly....

The Eucharist is the Sacrament in which the whole work of Redemption is concentrated: in Jesus as Eucharist we can contemplate the transformation of death into life, of violence into love. Hidden beneath the veils of the bread and the wine, we recognize through the eyes of faith the same glory that was manifested to the Apostles after the Resurrection.

---Benedict XVI, homily, July 4, 2009