We also see that Our Lord has continued His love of contradiction with the Eucharist. When He chose His disciples, He told them they would be fishers of men. These fishermen knew well that when they fish, the fish are alive and, when caught, they die. When they fish for men, the men are spiritually dead, and in being caught they receive eternal Life. In the Eucharist we have a similar contradiction.
Ordinary food is consumed and becomes that which consumes it.
In the Eucharist, we consume God and become that which we consume. Jesus did not merely become one of us, suffer human hardship, and die for us. He loves us with such a complete and infinite love that He wants us completely united with Him. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as We are One. This infinite Gift, this Most Perfect of all possible gifts, comes to us in the most humble way possible.