Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
"This most holy mystery thus needs to be firmly believed, devoutly celebrated and intensely lived in the Church. Jesus' gift of himself in the sacrament which is the memorial of his passion tells us that the success of our lives is found in our participation in the trinitarian life offered to us truly and definitively [...]
"Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive communion without having received absolution in the sacrament of penance." Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church #1415
"And all these receive the same sacraments; and as they do, some are bathed in fiery brilliance, but the others are overshadowed by a dark cloud… those who are radiant with good deeds and receive it with devout mind and pure faith and illumined by the gift of the Holy Spirit for the salvation of [...]
"O taste and see that the Lord is good. Trust not the judgment to your bodily palate no, but to faith unfaltering; for they who taste are bidden to taste, not bread and wine, but the anti-typical Body and Blood of Christ." Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
"Since the whole mystery of our salvation is comprised in this sacrament, therefore is it performed with greater solemnity than the other sacraments. And since it is written (Eccles. 4:17): 'Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of God'; and (Ecclus. 18:23): 'Before prayer prepare thy soul,' therefore the celebration of this mystery [...]
"Before leaving the church after Holy Mass, do not forget to thank God for the graces that He has just given to you. St. John and the holy women who were present at the Sacrifice of the Cross never forgot the vision of Calvary, and they came down from the Holy Mount, covered with the [...]
"As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God." Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church #1414
"When the Eternal Word took flesh, He hid His divinity, and appeared as a man on earth; but remaining with us in this Sacrament, He hides even His humanity, and, as remarks St. Bernard, appears only under the form of bread, to show thereby the tenderness of the love which He bears us: 'The Divinity [...]
"The humility of Jesus: in Bethlehem, in Nazareth, on Calvary. But still more humiliation and more self-abasement in the most sacred Host - more than in the stable, more than in Nazareth, more than on the cross. That is why I must love the Mass so! (Our Mass, Jesus.)" Source: St. Josemaria Escriva, The [...]
"But it is not enough to live for Jesus, to give and consecrate to Him all that we have, all that we are. We must live of Jesus, of His Eucharistic life, for Jesus is living in His sacramental state, there He leads a life proper to the Eucharist." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, [...]