"Our body is certainly our physical limit which separates us from the others and from the world, but it is also the place through which we communicate all the time with the world and with the others. It is up to us to make either aspect prevail over the other, in the way we live our corporeity: we can live it as a withdrawal into ourselves or as a gift". Starting from this reflection, cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Italian Bishops Conference and the Vicar of the Pope for the diocese of Rome, in the second catechesis held in Bonn today during the XX WYD, proposed among other things a thought on the Eucharist, stating that what "is given us" through it is not "a piece of body", a piece of flesh, but it is Him, Jesus died and risen from the dead, man and God. It is an extremely personal gift and communication, which requires our equally personally response and involvement". The Eucharist added the cardinal at the end is "the Sacrament of joy, it is a perennial source of joy for our life, the joy of the God so close who makes all things truly new".
