Quotes about Sacred meal

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the offerings made by fire to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.

No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

Allegorically (St. Cyril of Alexandria, Catena of the Greek Fathers): the setting of Christ's birth points us to the Eucharist. Since through sin man becomes like the beasts, Christ lies in the trough where animals feed, offering them, not hay, but his own body as life-giving bread.