Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
"He once in Cana of Galilee, turned the water into wine, akin to blood, and is it incredible that He should have turned wine into blood?" Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
"Receiving Communion everyday for so many years! Anybody else would be a saint by now - you told me - and I… I'm always the same! Son, I replied, keep up your daily Communion, and think: What would I be if I hadn't received?" Source: St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way: The Essential Classic of [...]
"Our faith and the eucharistic liturgy both have their source in the same event: Christ's gift of himself in the Paschal Mystery." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"The Eucharist, the sacrament of our salvation accomplished by Christ on the cross, is also a sacrifice of praise in thanksgiving for the work of creation. In the Eucharistic sacrifice the whole of creation loved by God is presented to the Father through the death and the Resurrection of Christ. Through Christ the Church can [...]
"After what we have said above, it must be held most certainly that the whole Christ is under each sacramental species yet not alike in each. For the body of Christ is indeed present under the species of bread by the power of the sacrament, while the blood is there from real concomitance, as stated [...]
"To every soul who visits Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, He addresses the words which He said to the Sacred Spouse: 'Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.' Thou soul which visitest Me, 'arise' from thy miseries; I am here to enrich thee with graces. 'Make haste,' approach, come [...]
"Set to work to destroy in yourself all that is not pleasing to Jesus Christ, to speak willingly to those who have caused you pain, to be pleased to see them, to love them sincerely, to practice the perfect renouncement of yourselves and you will see how your Communion will carry you forward with great [...]
"Now, of all the sacraments it is the Holy Eucharist that brings to fullness their initiation as Christians and confers upon the exercise of the common priesthood that sacramental and ecclesial form that links it-as we mentioned before-to the exercise of the ministerial priesthood. In this way eucharistic worship is the center and goal of [...]
"St. Teresa says, that this great King of Glory has disguised Himself in the Sacrament under the species of bread, and that He has concealed His Majesty, to encourage us to approach His Divine Heart with greater confidence. Let us, then, draw near to Jesus with great confidence and affection; let us unite ourselves to [...]
"By means of the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ our Lord willed to give the faithful a striking manifestation of our union among ourselves and with our divine Head, wonderful as it is and beyond all praise." Source: Pope Pius XII, MYSTICI CORPORIS CHRISTI, 6/29/1943. ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE MISTICAL BODY OF CHRIST [...]