Eucharist Quote: Pope Pius XII
"In the Holy Eucharist the faithful are nourished and strengthened at the same banquet and by a divine, ineffable bond are united with each other and with the Divine Head of the whole Body."
Virtue Quote: St. Faustina
"However, in all these sufferings and struggles, I was not omitting Holy Communion. When it seemed to me that I should not communicate, I went, before Holy Communion, to the Directress and told her that I could not approach the Sacrament, because it seemed to me that I should not do so. But she would [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Margaret Mary
"My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament where my heart is, as it were, in its center." -St. Margaret Mary
Virtue Quote: Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Spiritual joy is a serenity of temper in the midst of the changes of life, such as a mountain has when a storm breaks over it." -Ven. Fulton Sheen
Eucharist Quote: St. Faustina
"The Lord said to me, 'Oh, how painful it is to Me that souls so seldom unite themselves to Me in Holy Communion. I wait for souls and they are indifferent toward Me. I love them tenderly and sincerely, and they distrust Me. I want to lavish My graces on them, and they do not [...]
Virtue Quote: St. Peter Julian Eymard
"Jesus is the grace, as well as the model, of every virtue: 'Without Me,' He says, 'you can do nothing.' We must, then, be helped by Him. The work of virtue is only a co-operation with the divine action of Jesus Christ in us. He comes to aid us and to make us do what [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Alphonsus Liguori
"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." -St. Alphonsus Liguori
Virtue Quote: St. Francis de Sales
"A really humble man would rather that someone else called him worthless and good-for-nothing, than say so of himself; at all events, if such things are said, he does not contradict them, but acquiesces contentedly, for it is his own opinion." -St. Francis de Sales
Virtue Quote: G.K. Chesterton
"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. There is a trace of both men having said, 'We must not hit each other in the holy place.' They gained their morality by guarding their [...]
Eucharist Quote: Pope St. John Paul II
"In this gift Jesus Christ entrusted to his Church the perennial making present of the paschal mystery. With it he brought about a mysterious “oneness in time” between that Triduum and the passage of the centuries." -Pope St. John Paul II