Eucharist Quote: St. Alphonsus Liguori
"My Jesus, I believe that Thou art truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love Thee above all things, and I desire to possess Thee within my soul. Since I am unable now to receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace Thee as being [...]
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"By his command to 'do this in remembrance of me' (Lk 22:19; 1 Cor11:25), he asks us to respond to his gift and to make it sacramentally present." -Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharist Quote: St. John Vianney
"It is without doubt very humiliating for the good God to come into our hearts, but it is to find there a soul that He loves, that He has bought at the cost of His Blood." -St. John Vianney
Eucharist Quote: St. Peter Julian Eymard
"True, God is everywhere, but we have need for Him to draw near to us under sensible signs, and this is what He does in the Blessed Sacrament. Think, then, that He is there. That Presence is sweeter, is recalled more easily than the presence of the invisible, the impalpable [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Thomas Aquinas
As to the effect, considered in each of the partakers. For, as Ambrose (Mag. Sent. iv, D, xi) says on 1 Cor. 11:20, this sacrament "avails for the defense of soul and body"; and therefore "Christ's body is offered" under the species of bread "for the health of the body, [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Josemaria Escriva
"Mad! Yes, I saw you (in the bishop's chapel, you thought you were alone) as you left a kiss on each newly-consecrated chalice and paten, so that he might find it there when for the first He would 'come down' to those Eucharistic vessels. (***The protagonist of this incident, which [...]
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