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
We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily… — Sheldon F. Child Copy Share Image
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need… — 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
It is essential that we renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament. When we do this with a sincere heart, with… — Vaughn J Featherstone 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
Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because… — Phyllis McGinley 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
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
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22).… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology… — Rowan Williams 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
Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
