But let us all by God's grace run the race of chastity, young men and maidens, old men and children; not going after wantonness, but praising the name of Christ. Let us not be ignorant of the glory of chastity: for its crown is angelic, and its excellence above man. Source: St. Cyril of [...]
Your chief desire ought to be to slay your selfish will so that it neither seeks nor wants anything but to follow [God’s] gentle Truth, Christ crucified, by seeking the honor and glory of [His] name and the salvation of souls. The Dialogue was dictated by St. Catherine during an ecstasy that she experienced. [...]
Our holy faith teaches us, and we are bound to believe, that in the consecrated Host, Jesus Christ is really present under the species of bread. But we must also under stand that He is thus present on our altars as on a throne of love and mercy, to dispense graces, and there to show [...]
The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist. Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church #1322
Everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it, everything is directed towards it. Love is God’s greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope. Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth)
Levity is an act; joy, a habit. Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments
At every celebration of the Eucharist, we are spiritually brought back to the paschal Triduum: to the events of the evening of Holy Thursday, to the Last Supper and to what followed it. Source: Pope St. John Paul II, Papal Encyclical: Ecclesia De Eucharista, 4/17/2003
That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin. Source: Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims
We can thus understand how agape also became a term for the Eucharist: there God’s own agape comes to us bodily, in order to continue his work in us and through us. Source: Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est
Eucharistic Virtue will have daily quotes about the Eucharist and about Virtue. The goal is to have two quotes each day. Most of the quotes are taken from writings of the Saints and Magisterial documents. The goal of the quotes is to provide an easy way to reflect on the Eucharist and living our love [...]