The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then… — Pope John Paul II 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
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the Church lives… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Farmers everywhere provide bread for all humanity, but it is Christ alone who is the bread of life...Even if all the physical… — Pope John Paul II 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
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
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
