
Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Sacraments · Marriage & Family · Catholic Teaching
Holy Communion
By Venerable Fulton Sheen · Published Apr 18, 2018 · Updated May 18, 2026
In the marriage act, love is triune: wife gives self to husband and husband gives self to wife, out of that mutual self giving is born the ecstasy of love. The spirit too must have its ecstasy. What the union of husband and wife is in the order of the flesh, the union of the human and the Risen Christ is in Holy Communion.