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36 What are the fruits of receiving Holy Communion? If Holy Communion is received with a proper disposition: it deepens our intimate union with Christ, so that we can exclaim with Saint Paul: “It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2,20); it preserves, increases and renews the life of grace that I received at my Baptism and at Confirmation; consolidates our bond of unity within the Church and with the Church; urges the person to live each day, always conscious of the need for conversion and transfiguration, that is to say, to become more and more like Christ; helps us to grow in love for our neighbor; wipers out venial sins; helps to avoid falling into sin and makes us more willing to repent of our sins; reinforces the unity of the Church (the Eucharist makes the Church); makes us long for eternal life; provides us with a foretaste of the future glory of paradise as we make our way along this earthly pilgrimage; unites us to the Church in Heaven; is the source of the final resurrection: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on The Body the last day” (Jn 6,54). of Christ 115