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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were… — Peter Julian Eymard 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
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
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
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
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
“In regard to the institution of the Sacraments we may distinguish a threefold power: the divine potestas auctoritatis, the theandric potestas excettentiae,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the… — Peter Kreeft 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
Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You… — Columba Marmion 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
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
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
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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
Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
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