In his encyclical, "Ecclesia de Eucharistia," Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to "rekindle" our sense of "Eucharistic amazement," for "the Church draws her life from the Eucharist," which "recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church" -- Christ's glorified, abiding presence with, in, and through his people, fulfilling his promise to remain with us "to the close of the age" (Matthew 28:20). In the Eucharist, the Church meets her Lord "with unique intensity." Thus, the celebration of the Eucharist is not just something the Church does; the celebration of the Eucharist singularly embodies what the Church is. That profound sense of Eucharistic amazement is why the Latin American bishops, in their 2007 Aparecida Document, insisted on "Eucharistic coherence" in their Catholic communities. And according to those bishops (whose number included the man who would become pope six years later), the Church's Eucharistic coherence required that holy communion not be distributed to those Catholics in politics and medical practice who were not in full communion with the Church because they were facilitating or participating in such grave moral evils as abortion and euthanasia.