“In the same way that Melchisedek, the priest of Salem, offered up bread and wine as a type and figure of the Eucharist, so too Christ, our high priest, in His sacrifice took bread and wine in His holy and venerable hands, looked up to His Father in heaven, blessed the bread and said, ‘Take and eat, this is My Body.’ Then he took the cup of wine,  blessed it and said, ‘Drink this, all of you, for this is My Blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you.’” -Jan van Ruysbroeck,  A Mirror of Eternal Blessedness, written for a Poor Clare