1 - Jesus becomes our food and nourishment. What happens to the food we eat? We assimilate it. It becomes us. We become what we eat.
2 - There is a big difference between common food we eat and the body of Christ: the common food is a by-product; the body of Christ is a gift.
3 - Once we eat and digest the food we eat, the food is gone for ever. Once we eat Jesus as food, He is not gone at all. He is more active than before.
4 - Our culture eats in a way precisely opposite to that of the Eucharist. We eat on the run, in disposable and recyclable containers. Our culture seems to have lost the art of eating, the art of cooking, the social ritual surrounding the dinner time as a sharing time. The Eucharist cannot be eaten on the run.