Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The Church, his Bride, is called to celebrate the eucharistic banquet daily in his memory." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"The Church, his Bride, is called to celebrate the eucharistic banquet daily in his memory." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"The present is the season of confession: confess what you have done in word or in deed, by night or by day; confess in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation receive the heavenly treasure." Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
"Behold the source of every good, Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, who says, 'If any man thirst, let him come to Me' (St. John vii. 37). Oh, what torrents of grace have the Saints drawn from the fountain of the Most Blessed Sacrament! for there Jesus dispenses all the merits of His Passion, as [...]
"For all of the vices are born of selfishness because it is from selfishness that the principal vice, pride, is born. Those who are proud are bereft of any loving charity, and their pride is the source of impurity and avarice." Source: St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, Paulist Press, 1980 [...]
"God gives us the strength to fight and to suffer for love of the common good, because he is our All, our greatest hope." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"Have you ever noticed how eagerly an infant sucks at his mother’s breast? Let us come with the same eagerness to this Holy Table to this breast whence we draw a spiritual drink. Let us draw with greater strength still than the little ones, the grace of the Holy Spirit. Let us only have one [...]
"No one is permitted to undervalue the mystery entrusted to our hands: it is too great for anyone to feel free to treat it lightly and with disregard for its sacredness and its universality." Source: Pope St. John Paul II, Papal Encyclical: Ecclesia De Eucharista, 4/17/2003
"And what is the origin of our evil will but pride? For 'pride is the beginning of sin.' (Eccl. 10.13) And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation?" Source: St. Augustine, City of God
"He has mixed up Himself with us; He has kneaded up His body with ours, that we might be a certain One Thing, like a body joined to a head." Source: St. John Chrysostom, Homily 46
"The reason why we are not better than we are is that we do not will to better: the sinner and the saint are set apart by a series of tiny decisions within our hearts." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.