Daily Eucharist Quote – St. John Vianney
"Make your acts of thanksgiving after Holy Communion. Then invite the Blessed Virgin, all the angels and all the saints to thank God with you." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"Make your acts of thanksgiving after Holy Communion. Then invite the Blessed Virgin, all the angels and all the saints to thank God with you." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"O Love, O God of love, reign, triumph over my entire self; destroy and sacrifice all in me which is mine and not Thine. Permit not, O my Love, that my soul, which, having received Thee in the Holy Communion, is filled with the Majesty of God, should again attach itself to creatures. I love [...]
"As Christ's Passion, in virtue whereof this sacrament is accomplished, is indeed the sufficient cause of glory, yet not so that we are thereby forthwith admitted to glory, but we must first 'suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified' afterwards 'with Him' (Rom. 8:17), so this sacrament does not at once [...]
"We ought to be apostles, ministers, instruments of the Eucharist; and as the Apostles received the grace to preach the Cross. Our Lord gives us the grace to preach the Eucharist. The Eucharist ought to be our center, our life, our strength of action and apostolate." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist [...]
"At the center of the Church is the Eucharist, where Christ is present and active in humanity and in the whole world by means of the Holy Spirit." Source: Pope St. John Paul II, General Audience, September 13, 1989
" Abide with God that you may learn His kindness. Abide in recollection with yourselves that you may discover your own misery and learn how to despise yourselves. These are the two sources of fraternal charity, and the secret of love for the brethren. Fraternal charity is the well-beloved virtue of Our Lord. It is [...]
"The tabernacle was first intended for the reservation of the Eucharist in a worthy place so that it could be brought to the sick and those absent outside of Mass. As faith in the real presence of Christ in his Eucharist deepened, the Church became conscious of the meaning of silent adoration of the Lord [...]
"Now as this (the Eucharist) is a great and wonderful thing, so if you approach it with pureness, you approach for salvation; but if with an evil conscience, for punishment and vengeance. For, It says, he that eats and drinks unworthily of the Lord, eats and drinks judgment to himself; since if they who defile [...]
"The Church's spiritual tradition, basing itself on Christ's own words (cf. Mt 25:36), has designated the visiting of prisoners as one of the corporal works of mercy. Prisoners have a particular need to be visited personally by the Lord in the sacrament of the Eucharist. Experiencing the closeness of the ecclesial community, sharing in the [...]
"This sacrament must be offered to Me in three forms. What? Bread and wine and water, for the honor of the Trinity. If any of these three is lacking, the Trinity is not truly worshipped, for the Father is understood by the wine, the Son by the bread, and the Holy Spirit by the water. [...]