This eucharistic dynamic emerges most clearly on the night before Our Lord enters into his passion, but it marks Jesus’ whole life, death and resurrection. In a catechesis on the Road to Emmaus, Pope Francis observes that: “[Jesus] repeats for the disciples the fundamental gesture of every Eucharist. He takes us, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it. Does not Jesus’ entire history perhaps lie in this series of gestures? And is there not in every Euchareist