“Is the Lord’s Supper only for Christians? Whenever I ask this question I immediately remember the character of those that partook of… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven, is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived… — Clifton Fadiman 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
“Holy Communion is offered to all, as surely as the living Jesus Christ is for all, as surely as all of us… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart… — Arthur Middleton 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
Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but… — Adrienne von Speyr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the… — St. Jerome 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
“Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made… — Frederick Dale Bruner Copy Share Image
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image