Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love;… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully… — Brigit of Kildare Copy Share Image
Worthy partakers of the sacrament are in harmony with the Lord and put themselves under covenant with Him to always remember His… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor… — Nicolas Cotugno Copy Share Image
Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since with equal… — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is a real presence which includes every dimension of who Jesus is: body and blood, human soul and divine person. The… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also… In the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when… — Peter of Alcantara Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
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