The answer
St. Basil talks about praying the Divine Liturgy daily: “Now, to receive Communion daily, thus to partake of the holy Body and Blood of Christ, is an excellent and advantageous practice; for Christ Himself says clearly: ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life everlasting’ (John 6:54). Who doubts that to share continually in the life is nothing else than to have a manifold life? We ourselves, of course, receive Communion four times a week, on Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; also on other days, if there is a commemoration of some saint.”1487
He also says, “The daily Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ is great and beneficial because the Lord declares: ‘Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you’ (John 6:53).”1488
St. Augustine says, “Throughout these days the teachers feed you. Christ daily feeds you, That His Table is ever ordered before you. What is the reason, O Hearers, that you see the Table, and come not to the Banquet?”1489
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
1487 St. Basil of Caesarea, Letters 1–185 93 To the Patrician Caesarea, about Communion (FOTC 13:208).
1488 St. Basil of Caesarea, De baptismo 10.6, 54.
1489 St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament 82.1 (NPNF I/6:504).