[19] So what am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything? [20] No, I mean that what they sacrifice, (they sacrifice) to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons. [21] You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. [22] Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he?
(CCC 1325) "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. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit" (Congregation of Rites, instruction, Eucharisticum mysterium, 6). (CCC 1326) Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all (Cf. 1 Cor 15:28). (CCC 1327) In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking" (St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 18, 5: PG 7/l, 1028).
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