"On The Mystery And Worship Of The Eucharist..Dominicae Cenae"
A Papal letter promulgated by John Paul II
On February 24, 1980 To All the Bishops of the Church

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". . . . The purpose of these words is to put forward some general reflections on worship of the Eucharistic Mystery, and they could be developed at greater length and more fully. In particular, it would be possible to link what has been said about the effects of the Eucharist on love for others with what we have just noted about commitments undertaken towards humanity and the Church in Eucharistic Communion, and then outline the picture of that "new earth"[34] that springs from the Eucharist through every "new self."[35] In this sacrament of bread and wine, of food and drink, everything that is human really undergoes a singular transformation and elevation. Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart"(Excerpt).

34. 2 Pt. 3:13.

35. Col. 3:10.