Wisdom from Dr. Brant Pitre

The New Manna [Eucharist] is a foretaste of the Promise Land. It's a foretaste of the life of the world to come. Just as the Israelites in the Old Testament received the Manna every day as a pledge of their future entry into the Promise Land, so to we receive the Eucharist as a pledge of our Resurrection.

—Dr. Brant Pitre from Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist