Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
"When you approach the tabernacle remember that He has been waiting for you for twenty centuries." Source: St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way: The Essential Classic of Opus Dei's Founder, Image, 2006
"A convincing indication of the effectiveness of eucharistic catechesis is surely an increased sense of the mystery of God present among us. This can be expressed in concrete outward signs of reverence for the Eucharist which the process of mystagogy should inculcate in the faithful." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), [...]
"In the Old Testament also there was show-bread; but this, as it belonged to the Old Testament, has come to an end; but in the New Testament there is Bread of heaven, and a Cup of salvation, sanctifying soul and body." Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
"The Sacrifice of Calvary was offered up in a bloody manner by the separation of His blood from His body. In the Mass, this death is mystically and sacramentally presented in an unbloody manner, by the separate consecration of bread and wine. The two are not consecrated together by such words as 'This is My [...]
"The celebration of the Eucharist, in its infinite richness, makes constant reference to salvation history." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. 'The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament [...]
"The refreshment of spiritual food and the unity denoted by the species of the bread and wine are to be had in the present life, although imperfectly, but perfectly in the state of glory. Hence Augustine says on the words, 'My flesh is meat indeed' (Jn. 6:56)." Source: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica [...]
"O Love, O God of love, reign, triumph over my entire self; destroy and sacrifice all in me which is mine and not Thine. Permit not, O my Love, that my soul, which, having received Thee in the Holy Communion, is filled with the Majesty of God, should again attach itself to creatures. I love [...]
"As Christ's Passion, in virtue whereof this sacrament is accomplished, is indeed the sufficient cause of glory, yet not so that we are thereby forthwith admitted to glory, but we must first 'suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified' afterwards 'with Him' (Rom. 8:17), so this sacrament does not at once [...]
"We ought to be apostles, ministers, instruments of the Eucharist; and as the Apostles received the grace to preach the Cross. Our Lord gives us the grace to preach the Eucharist. The Eucharist ought to be our center, our life, our strength of action and apostolate." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist [...]