"In this year specially dedicated to the Eucharist, I would like to urge all men and women religious to establish an ever more profound communion with Christ by sharing daily in the sacrament which makes Him present, and in the sacrifice which actualizes the gift of his love on Golgotha, the banquet which nourishes and sustains God's pilgrim people. "By its very nature", as the Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata affirms, "the Eucharist is at the centre of the consecrated life, both for individuals and for communities"
(VC 95)"

“ Eucharistic communion confirms the church in her unity as the body of Christ. St. Paul refers to this unifying power of participation in the banquet of the Eucharist when he writes to Corinthians, “ The bread which we break, is it not a communion in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many we are body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor 10, 16-17) (EdE 23).