Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
"There is somewhat the same relationship existing between Baptism and the Eucharist, as there is between faith and charity or perfect love. Baptism is the sacrament of faith, because it is the foundation of the spiritual life. The Eucharist is the sacrament of charity or love because it is the re-enactment of the perfect act [...]
"We shall only understand it in heaven. What a pity! If we could conceive a little of the grandeur and happiness of Communion, we would desire life only to have the happiness of making Jesus Christ our daily bread. All created things would be as nothing." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the [...]
"'Treat Him well for me, treat Him well,' said a certain elderly bishop with tears in his eyes to the priests he had just ordained. Lord, I wish I had the voice and authority to cry out in the same way to the ears and hearts of many, many Christians!" Source: St. Josemaria Escriva, [...]
"Thus was life communicated to man, a life truly heavenly and divine… Since this life of which We are speaking bears a definite resemblance to the natural life of man, as the one draws its nourishment and strength from food, so also the other must have its own food whereby it may be sustained and [...]
"The Bread and Wine of the Eucharist before the invocation of the Holy and Adorable Trinity were simple bread and wine, while after the invocation the Bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the Wine the Blood of Christ." Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
"The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist. The sign of water turned into wine at Cana already announces the Hour of Jesus' glorification. It makes manifest [...]
"As our Lord compared Himself to the grain of wheat, so also He compared Himself to the vine, saying (Jn. 15:1): 'I am the true vine.' But only bread from wheat is the matter of this sacrament, as stated above. Therefore, only wine from the grape is the proper matter of this sacrament." [...]
"It must never be forgotten that our reception of Baptism and Confirmation is ordered to the Eucharist." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"It is in the Blessed Sacrament that Jesus ought to be your end, therefore, perform all your actions in view of Holy Communion. Let that be the pivot of your day, the centre of your life, whence all radiates and to which all converges. Let all you do, be a preparation to receive Our Lord, [...]
"When, at the Visitation, she bore in her womb the Word made flesh, she became in some way a 'tabernacle' – the first 'tabernacle' in history – in which the Son of God, still invisible to our human gaze, allowed himself to be adored by Elizabeth, radiating his light as it were through the eyes [...]