Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Thomas Aquinas
"The Eucharist is the sacrament of the unity of the whole Church." Source: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"How admirable is that obedience of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament! It is unattended by glory, its perfection is not seen. It is almost always without honor. Who in the world reflects on it, even the Christian even the pious soul? It is humiliated, since He obeys even the sacrilegious, the apostate, the soul [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope St. John Paul II
"Now the paschal mystery, in which 'God is perfectly glorified' (Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 7), is perpetuated in the Eucharistic sacrifice, the memorial of the death and resurrection entrusted by Christ to the Church, his beloved Spouse (cf. ibid., n. 47). With the command 'Do this in remembrance of me' (Lk 22: 19), Jesus assures the [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Alphonsus Liguori
"Many Christians submit to great fatigue, and expose themselves to many dangers, to visit the places in the Holy Land where our most loving Saviour was born, suffered, and died. We need not undertake so long a journey, or expose ourselves to so many dangers; the same Lord is near us, and dwells in the [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Catechism of the Catholic Church
"The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Paul VI
"[T]he whole Church plays the role of priest and victim along with Christ, offering the Sacrifice of the Mass and itself completely offered in it. The Fathers of the Church taught this wondrous doctrine." Source: Pope Paul VI, SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, DECEMBER 4, 1963
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The eucharistic mystery thus gives rise to a service of charity towards neighbour, which 'consists in the very fact that, in God and with God, I love even the person whom I do not like or even know. This can only take place on the basis of an intimate encounter with God, an encounter which [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. John Vianney
"After the Consecration God looks on the altar: 'There,' He says, 'is My well-beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.'" Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope St. John Paul
"To grasp the greatness of the Eucharistic mystery, let us reflect today on the theme of divine glory and of God's action in the world, now manifested in the great events of salvation, now hidden beneath humble signs which only the eye of faith can perceive." Source: John Paul II, General Audience - September [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Thomas Aquinas
"The celebration of this sacrament is called a sacrifice for two reasons. First, because, as Augustine says (Ad Simplician. ii), 'the images of things are called by the names of the things whereof they are the images; as when we look upon a picture or a fresco, we say, 'This is Cicero and that is [...]