"Let all those devout souls who often go and spend their time with the Most Blessed Sacrament speak;??let them tell us the gifts, the inspirations which they have received, the flames of love which are there enkindled in their souls, the paradise which they enjoy in the presence of this hidden God." Source:ÿ St. [...]
"Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, 'I will not hit you if you do not hit me'; there is no trace of such a transaction.ÿ There is a trace of both men having said, 'We must not hit each other in the holy place.' ÿThey gained their morality by guarding their [...]
"In this gift Jesus Christ entrusted to his Church the perennial making present of the paschal mystery.ÿ With it he brought about a mysterious 'oneness in time' between that Triduum and the passage of the centuries." Source: ÿPope St. John Paul II, Papal Encyclical: Ecclesia De Eucharista, 4/17/2003
"But from the fact that the woman was made for him from his side, it was plainly meant that we should learn how dear the bond between man and wife should be." Source: St. Augustine, City of God
"'This is My Body' - then it is no longer bread. 'This is My Blood' - then it is no longer wine. Jesus Christ has said it. I believe because He is the Truth, who does not deceive, the Power that all things obey." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Cure D'Ars [...]
"A Christianity of charity without truth would be more or less interchangeable with a pool of good sentiments, helpful for social cohesion, but of little relevance.ÿ In other words, there would no longer be any real place for God in the world." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009 [...]
"At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his [...]
"Macedonius explained to me, lowly that I am, why he had voluntarily adopted a humbled life of this kind. 'I have never felt such absence of conflict within me, such sweetness of divine light, as now,' he said." Source: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent
"The sacrament of charity, the Holy Eucharist is the gift that Jesus Christ makes of himself, thus revealing to us God's infinite love for every man and woman." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
The abuse scandal has exemplified vice and a complete lack of virtue. I’m not talking about the abusers. Certainly, their behavior was sinful and driven by unrestrained vice, but the handling by the Church leadership has lacked virtue at almost every step. We need to look at how to pursue virtue in this terrible abuse [...]