Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope St. John Paul II
"With the Eucharist the intimacy becomes total; the embrace between God and man reaches its apex." Source: Â Pope St. John Paul II, General Audience - October 11, 2000
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Alphonsus Liguori
"The servant of God and great Sicilian missionary-father, Louis La Nusa, was, even in his youth and as a layman, so enamoured of Jesus Christ, that he seemed unable to tear himself from the presence of his beloved Lord; and such were the joys which he there experienced, that his director, having commanded him, in [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Josemaria Escriva
"Don't be so blind or so thoughtless that you fail to 'go into' each tabernacle when you glimpse the walls of the steeple of each house of our Lord. He is waiting for you. Don't be so blind or so thoughtless that you fail to say at least an ejaculation to Mary Immaculate, whenever you [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Catechism of the Catholic Church
"Having passed from this world to the Father, Christ gives us in the Eucharist the pledge of glory with him. Participation in the Holy Sacrifice identifies us with his Heart, sustains our strength along the pilgrimage of this life, makes us long for eternal life, and unites us even now to the Church in heaven, [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope St. John Paul II
"Jesus is really present under the appearances of bread and wine, as he himself assures us: 'This is my body ... this is my blood' (Mt26: 26, 28). But the Christ present in the Eucharist is the Christ now glorified, who on Good Friday offered himself on the cross." Source:Â Pope St. John Paul [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Cyril of Jerusalem
"In approaching therefore, come not with your wrists extended, or your fingers spread; but make your left hand a throne for the right, as for that which is to receive a King. And having hollowed your palm, receive the Body of Christ, saying over it, Amen." Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. John Vianney
"Would we have dared to ask God to deliver His Son to death for us: to give us His Flesh to eat and His Blood to drink? If all this is not true, then man has been able to imagine things greater than God can do. He would have gone further than God in the [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Thomas Aquinas
"The breaking of the host denotes three things: first, the rending of Christ's body, which took place in the Passion; secondly, the distinction of His mystical body according to its various states; and thirdly, the distribution of the graces which flow from Christ's Passion, as Dionysius observes (Eccl. Hier. iii). Hence this breaking does not [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Alphonsus Liguori
"I desire at least, my Lord, and determine, to visit Thee often, in order to adore Thee as I now adore Thee, and this in compensation for the insults which Thou receivest in this most Divine mystery. Accept, O Eternal Father, this scanty honour, which I, the most miserable of men, now offer Thee in [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope St. John Paul II
"Only the Eucharist, the true memorial of Christ's paschal mystery, is capable of keeping alive in us the memory of his love. It is, therefore, the secret of the vigilance of the Church: it would be too easy for her, otherwise, without the divine efficacy of this continual and very sweet incentive, without the penetrating [...]