Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
"Because the change of the bread and wine is not terminated at the Godhead or the soul of Christ, it follows as a consequence that the Godhead or the soul of Christ is in this sacrament not by the power of the sacrament, but from real concomitance. For since the Godhead never set aside the [...]
"Even thus Jesus Christ will say at the hour of death to those who have the misfortune of receiving Him into their hearts unworthily. 'Why have you had the audacity to receive Me when you were stained with so many sins?' No, never forget that to communicate we must be truly converted, and have a [...]
"If our Eucharistic worship is authentic, it must make us grow in awareness of the dignity of each person. The awareness of that dignity becomes the deepest motive of our relationship with our neighbor." Source: Pope St. John Paul II, LETTER DOMINICAE CENAE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II TO ALL THE BISHOPS [...]
"Consequently, every time we approach the Body and Blood of Christ in the eucharistic liturgy, we also turn to her who, by her complete fidelity, received Christ's sacrifice for the whole Church. The Synod Fathers rightly declared that 'Mary inaugurates the Church's participation in the sacrifice of the Redeemer.'" Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM [...]
"If from the beginning Christians have celebrated the Eucharist and in a form whose substance has not changed despite the great diversity of times and liturgies, it is because we know ourselves to be bound by the command the Lord gave on the eve of his Passion: 'Do this in remembrance of me.'" Source: [...]
"As well as physical hunger, man also suffers from another form of hunger that cannot be sated with ordinary food. It is a hunger for life, a hunger for love, a hunger for eternity. Manna is the sign… that prefigured the food that satisfies this profound hunger present in man. Jesus gives us this nourishment [...]
"Mary's Assumption body and soul into heaven is for us a sign of sure hope, for it shows us, on our pilgrimage through time, the eschatological goal of which the sacrament of the Eucharist enables us even now to have a foretaste." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007 [...]
"In His Eucharist, Jesus is the very essence of purity. He is so pure that He unites Himself to no body, not even to the substance of the bread, since He destroys it in order to take its place; nor even to the visible accidents, for He is united to them neither substantially nor personally. [...]
“In the communion, preceded by the Lord's prayer and the breaking of the bread, the faithful receive ‘the bread of heaven’ and ‘the cup of salvation,’ the body and blood of Christ who offered himself ‘for the life of the world’: Because this bread and wine have been made Eucharist (‘eucharisted,’ according to an ancient [...]
"We must, before going to the Holy Table, be sure that we have spent sufficient time in examination of conscience in order to discover our mortal sins, and that we have a great sorrow also, that our confession has thus been entire. We must have a firm determination to do, by the grace of God, [...]