the Eucharist<\/a>, also known as communion, is a special way in which all the believers that take communion are connected to God through Jesus and connected to each other giving meaning to the phrase “brothers and sisters in Christ.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n“When I encounter Jesus at the mass I know that he loves me so much that he died and gave us his body to share in his death to sin and resurrection to eternal life with God the Father,” says Cindy Wallace a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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