"The law that runs through Nature is there is never a sacrament without a sacrifice. Nothing contributes to our living except through something that has experienced dying. Here is the fallacy of those who would reduce the Eucharist to a meal - what meat is ever put on a dish except through death? It seams a hard law, but it is true; we live by what we slay. We slew Him by our sins. But through His Mercy we live by what we have slain. There is a Communion because there has been a Consecration; there is a oneness with the Holiness of His Priesthood because there is a Cross on our Victimhood."    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)