Various documents have been written on the centrality of the Eucharist to the life and ministry of the Church. The links below offer complete texts of some of the significant documents.

Sacrosanctum Concilium
Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy prepared during the Second Vatican Council and promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1963.

Ecclesia de Eucharistia
Pope John Paul II's Enyclical letter on the Eucharist and its relationship to the Church.

Sacramentum Caritatis
Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist as the source and summit of the Church's life and mission

One Bread, One Body
A teaching document on the Eucharist in the life of the Church (published jointly in 1998 by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, England & Wales and Scotland).

The Shape, Significance & Ecclesial Impact of Eucharistic Congresses.
An address given by Archbishop Piero Marini, President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference in June 2009

La Fisionomia dei Congressi Eucharistici tra Storia e Attualità.
Intervento di S. E. Mons. Piero Marini, Presidente del Pontificio Comitato per i Congressi Eucaristici Internazionali, All’assemblea plenaria della Conferenza Episcopale d’Irlanda.

 

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