“Jesus had said in one of His parables: ‘The Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son’ (Mt 22:2). The Eucharist is the sacramental anticipation and, in a certain sense, a ‘foretaste’ of that royal feast which the Book of Revelation calls ‘the marriage supper of the Lamb’ (cf. Rev 19:9). The bridegroom who is at the center of that marriage feast and of its Eucharistic foreshadowing and anticipation is the Lamb who ‘took away the sins of the world,’ the Redeemer.” — Pope St. John Paul II