"A mortal man, a creature, feeds himself, satiates himself with his God, making of Him his daily food and drink! O miracle of miracles! O love beyond all love! O happiness beyond all happiness! I thank you, O my God, and I ask of you the grace to hunger always for this heavenly food." -St. [...]
"Ye obey the bishop and the presbytery with an undivided mind, breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying, but [which causes] that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ." -St. Ignatius of Antioch
"Jesus Christ, who 'through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God' (Heb 9:14), makes us, in the gift of the Eucharist, sharers in God's own life." -Pope Benedict XVI
"Precisely for this reason it is good to cultivate in our hearts a constant desire for the sacrament of the Eucharist." -Pope St. John Paul II
"The inexhaustible richness of this sacrament is expressed in the different names we give it. Each name evokes certain aspects of it. It is called: The Holy Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church's offering. the terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, 'sacrifice of praise,' spiritual [...]
"Be also assured that Jesus Christ finds means to console a soul which remains with a recollected spirit before the Most Blessed Sacrament, far beyond what the world can do with all its feasts and pastimes." -St. Alphonsus Liguori
"It was necessary accordingly that there should be at all times among men something to show forth our Lord's Passion; the chief sacrament of which in the old Law was the Paschal Lamb. Hence the Apostle says (1 Cor. 5:7): 'Christ our Pasch is sacrificed.' But its successor under the New Testament is the sacrament [...]
"Now if any one will seriously consider the benefits which flow from the Eucharist he will understand that conspicuous and chief among them all is that in which the rest, without exception, are included; in a word it is for men the source of life, of that life with best deserves the name. 'The bread [...]
"None (of the other sacraments) can be compared to the Eucharist… all this (Baptism, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Marriage) seems to be only an apprenticeship to His love for men. In the adorable Sacrament of the Eucharist He goes much further." -St. John Vianney
"The seeds of disunity, which daily experience shows to be so deeply rooted in humanity as a result of sin, are countered by the unifying power of the body of Christ." -Pope St. John Paul II