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Furthermore, the bread and wine are a reminder of the human effort that must be made, the daily work of those who cultivate the land and gather the sheaves of wheat and bunches of grapes, and transform them into bread and wine. As we reflect on these foods we think about all the various good work that men and women do in order to satisfy all their personal, family and social needs. And so in this way we can say that man’s work is sanctified. God makes present the Mystery of his communion with us even as he conceals himself under the forms of the consecrated bread and wine. These are the things that the earth has given and human hands have made and show us clearly the harmonious collaboration that exits between man and the created world. It also foretells the new Heavens and the new Earth that God will accomplish through Christ at the end of time. In this way, the Creation shows it aspire beyond itself to something even greater. Bread recalls us too the food a traveler usually takes with him when he is on a journey. We too are pilgrims on the earth, as we make our way towards our true homeland: Heaven. The Lord wanted to give us food for our pilgrimage, but not just any kind of food, rather he wanted to give us a food that was extraordinary, something exceptional: nothing less than himself, His Body and His Blood. Just as the people of Israel received the manna from heaven as they made their way through the desert for forty years, so also do we receive our manna as we make our way towards Heaven, that is, the Host which the Lord feeds us with. This is the True Bread from Heaven, his Body and Blood. 111