Daily quotes on the Eucharist from Saints, Popes and others.
"Christ is contained in this sacrament, and He compares Himself to a grain of wheat, saying (Jn. 12:24): 'Unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone.' Therefore bread from corn, i.e. wheaten bread, is the matter of this sacrament." Source: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
"The Church, his Bride, is called to celebrate the eucharistic banquet daily in his memory." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"Behold the source of every good, Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, who says, 'If any man thirst, let him come to Me' (St. John vii. 37). Oh, what torrents of grace have the Saints drawn from the fountain of the Most Blessed Sacrament! for there Jesus dispenses all the merits of His Passion, as [...]
"Have you ever noticed how eagerly an infant sucks at his mother’s breast? Let us come with the same eagerness to this Holy Table to this breast whence we draw a spiritual drink. Let us draw with greater strength still than the little ones, the grace of the Holy Spirit. Let us only have one [...]
"No one is permitted to undervalue the mystery entrusted to our hands: it is too great for anyone to feel free to treat it lightly and with disregard for its sacredness and its universality." Source: Pope St. John Paul II, Papal Encyclical: Ecclesia De Eucharista, 4/17/2003
"He has mixed up Himself with us; He has kneaded up His body with ours, that we might be a certain One Thing, like a body joined to a head." Source: St. John Chrysostom, Homily 46
"At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ's Body and Blood. Faithful to the Lord's command the Church continues to do, in his memory and until his glorious return, what he did on the eve of [...]
"The substantial conversion of bread and wine into his body and blood introduces within creation the principle of a radical change, a sort of 'nuclear fission,' to use an image familiar to us today, which penetrates to the heart of all being, a change meant to set off a process which transforms reality, a process [...]
" I believe that Thou, O Jesus, art in the Most Holy Sacrament ! I love Thee and desire Thee ! Come into my heart. I embrace Thee ; oh, never leave me!" Source: St. Alphonsus Liguori, Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament
"Act always through love for Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Do all for Him, and nothing but for Him alone." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. This religious order is "a Catholic religious [...]