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 1  Ded,  Ded    |          women~in the consecrated life~and all the lay faithful~
 2  Int,    1    |           1. The Church draws her life from the Eucharist. This
 3  Int,    1    |           summit of the Christian life”.1 “For the most holy Eucharist
 4  Int,    1    |        flesh, now made living and life-giving by the Holy Spirit,
 5  Int,    1    |        the Holy Spirit, he offers life to men”.2 Consequently the
 6  Int,    1(2) |        Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum
 7  Int,    3    |        the centre of the Church's life. This is already clear from
 8  Int,    6    |       blood. The Church draws her life from Christ in the Eucharist;
 9  Int,    7    |           it the Church draws her life. From this “living bread”
10  Int,    8    |         Eucharist, and look at my life as a priest, as a Bishop
11  Int,    9    |        and its importance for the life of those who are its ministers.
12    1,   12    |       Church constantly draws her life from the redeeming sacrifice;
13    1,   13    |           the point of giving his life (cf. Jn 10:17-18) is in
14    1,   13    |         the grant of new immortal life in the resurrection”.18 ~
15    1,   13    |     summit of the whole Christian life, they offer the divine victim
16    1,   14    |           Eucharist the “bread of life” (Jn 6:35, 48), the “living
17    1,   14    |         Lord died and returned to life for us and on our behalf”.21 ~
18    1,   16    |           compares to that of the life of the Trinity, is truly
19    1,   16    |      drink his blood, you have no life within you” (Jn 6:53). This
20    1,   17    |         eats it will have eternal life”.27 The Church implores
21    1,   18    |      hereafter to receive eternal life: they already possess it
22    1,   18    |       drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up
23    1,   20    |   solidarity, and to defend human life from conception to its natural
24    1,   20    |    Eucharist and in the Christian life as a whole: “Come, Lord
25    2,   22    |       because of him that we have life: “He who eats me will live
26    2,   22(41)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Life and Ministry of Priests
27    2,   23    |   consolidation and her continued life, is at work in the Eucharist.
28    2,   25    |         inestimable value for the life of the Church. This worship
29    3,   29(58)|        Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum
30    3,   30    |         profess that it signifies life in communion with Christ
31    3,   31    |        and summit of the Church's life, it is likewise the centre
32    3,   31    |       gives unity to the priest's life and work. This, the Council
33    3,   31    |        root of the whole priestly life”.64 We can understand, then,
34    3,   31    |           it is for the spiritual life of the priest, as well as
35    3,   31(64)|                     Decree on the Life and Ministry of Priests
36    3,   31    |           of the Eucharist in the life and ministry of priests
37    3,   33(66)|        Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbytero- rum
38    4,   34    |          masters of the spiritual life. Saint Teresa of Jesus wrote: “
39    4,   34(69)|                Nicolas Cabasilas, Life in Christ, IV, 10: SCh 355,
40    4,   36    |          growing, presupposes the life of grace, by which we become “
41    4,   38    |           summit of the spiritual life and the goal of all the
42    4,   41    |          Mass fundamental for the life of the Church and of individual
43    6,   53    |           Eucharist” in her whole life. The Church, which looks
44    6,   54    |       thus becoming the 'bread of life'”.~
45    6,   56    |          56. Mary, throughout her life at Christ's side and not
46    6,   58    |           given to us so that our life, like that of Mary, may
47  CON,   59    |         have the words of eternal life” (Jn 6:68).~
48  CON,   60    |       that in him we may live the life of the Trinity, and with