Daily Eucharist Quote – St. John Vianney
"Make your acts of thanksgiving after Holy Communion. Then invite the Blessed Virgin, all the angels and all the saints to thank God with you." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"Make your acts of thanksgiving after Holy Communion. Then invite the Blessed Virgin, all the angels and all the saints to thank God with you." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"What, then, are the characteristics of fraternal charity? The same as those of Our Lord's love for us. First, Our Lord loved us for ourselves, and not for Himself. Love that loves others for self, is only egoism. We must, then, love our brethren for their spiritual good, and even for their temporal good according [...]
"Slander is a kind of murder; for we all have three lives – a spiritual life, which depends upon the Grace of God; a bodily life, depending on the soul; and a civil life, consisting in a good reputation. Sin deprives us of the first, death of the second, and slander of the third." [...]
"O Love, O God of love, reign, triumph over my entire self; destroy and sacrifice all in me which is mine and not Thine. Permit not, O my Love, that my soul, which, having received Thee in the Holy Communion, is filled with the Majesty of God, should again attach itself to creatures. I love [...]
"As Christ's Passion, in virtue whereof this sacrament is accomplished, is indeed the sufficient cause of glory, yet not so that we are thereby forthwith admitted to glory, but we must first 'suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified' afterwards 'with Him' (Rom. 8:17), so this sacrament does not at once [...]
" Daughter, words could never describe the suffering of these wretched little souls. There are three principal vices: The first is selfishness, which in turn gives birth to the second, self-conceit. From this conceit comes the third, pride, with treacherous injustice and cruelty as well as other evil filthy sins generated by these. So also, [...]
"We make a covenant with God, entreating Him to forgive us our sins, as we also forgive our neighbors their debts. Considering then what we receive and in return for what, let us not put off nor delay to forgive one another. The offenses committed against us are slight and trivial, and easily settled; but [...]
"We ought to be apostles, ministers, instruments of the Eucharist; and as the Apostles received the grace to preach the Cross. Our Lord gives us the grace to preach the Eucharist. The Eucharist ought to be our center, our life, our strength of action and apostolate." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist [...]
"Love is indeed 'ecstasy', not in the sense of a movement of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an ongoing exodus out of the closed inward-looking self towards its liberation through self-giving, and thus towards authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God: 'Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses [...]
"At the center of the Church is the Eucharist, where Christ is present and active in humanity and in the whole world by means of the Holy Spirit." Source: Pope St. John Paul II, General Audience, September 13, 1989