Eucharistic Quote by Catherine of Genoa

“Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.”

Catherine of Genoa

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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of…

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature… And she is so…

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We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

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My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself.

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The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

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