"He is in the Most Blessed Sacrament to exercise His priesthood. He is there as God and Man. Does not this Presence call for a special service, a court, a family, which has no other occupation than to serve the great King?" Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard [...]
"You must not think that you have made any progress until you look upon yourself as inferior to all others." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940.
"I write to the Churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless ye hinder me. I beseech of you not to show an unseasonable good-will towards me. Suffer me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I [...]
"The effect of this sacrament is considered from the way in which this sacrament is given; for it is given by way of food and drink. And therefore this sacrament does for the spiritual life all that material food does for the bodily life, namely, by sustaining, giving increase, restoring, and giving delight." Source: [...]
"Cannot the Church leave this service to the great variety of other philanthropic organization? The answer is No, the Church cannot do this. She must practice love for neighbor as a community, too, or she would proclaim the God of love in an incomplete and insufficient way." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas [...]
"We are well aware that from the earliest times the celebration of the Eucharist has been linked not only with prayer but also with the reading of Sacred Scripture and with singing by the whole assembly. As a result, it has long been possible to apply to the Mass the comparison, made by the Fathers, [...]
"In practice, one should always have on hand some supplementary prayers, some novena, for instance, over and above those of our profession, some devotion suited to the time or to the state of the soul." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of [...]
“Why do you persecute Me?” Jesus Christ said to the Jews. “Is it because I have opened the eyes of the blind, made the lame walk, cured the sick and raised the dead? Is it a crime to have loved you so much?” Such is the language that Jesus Christ speaks to those who profane [...]
"Most assuredly the sin of rash judgments is a spiritual jaundice, which makes everything look amiss to those who have it." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament. The Church Fathers strongly affirmed the faith of the Church in the efficacy of the Word of Christ and of the action of the Holy Spirit to bring about this conversion. Thus St. [...]