Dear brothers and sisters, it seems to me that at this point we should also think of our own time; even today there is the danger of reducing Eucharistic realism, that is, of understanding the Eucharist only as a rite of communion, of socialisation, forgetting too easily that in the Eucharist the risen Christ is really present – with his risen body – which he puts into our hands to draw us out of ourselves, to incorporate us in his immortal body, and thus to guide us to the new life. This great mystery that the Lord is present in all his reality in the Eucharistic species is a mystery to adore and always to love anew.
--Benedict XVI
