"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”
The Holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. —CCC, NOS. 1322-1419
The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being.
—CCC, nos. 1322 and 1325, citing Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction on the Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery (Eucharisticum Mysterium), no. 6