Sacraments Quotes by Pope John Paul II

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

— Pope John Paul II

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

— Pope John Paul II

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

— Pope John Paul II

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

— Pope John Paul II

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love…

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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