The Church is not only a corporation like the State. It is a body. It is not an organisation, but a body." This is what the Pope pointed out in today’s audience focusing on the "realism" of the Eucharistic doctrine in St Paul’s letters. "The realism of the Church said Benedict XVI is deeper and truer of that of the State. It is the realism of Christ who gives us his body and makes us his body so that we truly become united with one another." Hence, "the personal and social character" of the Eucharistic sacrament, in which "Christ unites himself personally with each one of us, but also with women and men who are surrounding me. It is bread for me and for the others, thus uniting us with one another." "Christ and our neighbour said the Holy Father are indissolubly linked in the Eucharist: a Eucharist without solidarity with the others is an abuse of the Eucharist." Summing up, according to the Pope "the Eucharist is teaching us that Christ is giving himself, his love, to us, to make us conformed to him thus building a new world." "This cup is the new covenant in my blood," St Paul writes. According to him, "in Christ’s blood "the new history of humanity begins." ” “
