Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"The Church's faith is essentially a eucharistic faith, and it is especially nourished at the table of the Eucharist." -Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharist Quote: St. Peter Julian Eymard
"And all that love of God may be summed up, condensed, vouched for in the gift that God made me of His Son, that Jesus Christ made me of Himself in Holy Communion. I am His end. He finishes by uniting Himself to me! All, then, was for me, and for me alone! All since [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Alphonsus Liguori
"Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the Sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds the first place, is the most pleasing to God, and the most useful to ourselves. Be not then loth, devout soul, now to begin ; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Augustine
"For when he says in another book which is called Ecclesiastes, 'There is no good for a man, except that he should eat and drink,' what can he be more credibly understood to say, than what belongs to the participation of this table which the Mediator of the New Testament Himself, the Priest after the [...]
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"I wish here to endorse the wishes expressed by the Synod Fathers by encouraging the Christian people to deepen their understanding of the relationship between the eucharistic mystery, the liturgical action, and the new spiritual worship which derives from the Eucharist as the sacrament of charity." -Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharist Quote: Pope St. John Paul II
"By analogy with the Covenant of Mount Sinai, sealed by sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, the actions and words of Jesus at the Last Supper laid the foundations of the new messianic community, the People of the New Covenant." -Pope St. John Paul II
Eucharist Quote: Catechism of the Catholic Church
"The Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: 'Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.'" -Catechism of the Catholic Church
Eucharist Quote: St. John Vianney
"By the Eucharist He feeds His children, not with the Manna with which the Jewish people were fed in the desert, but with His adorable Body and His precious Blood." -St. John Vianney
Eucharist Quote: St. Thomas Aquinas
"A thing is one in perfection, when it is complete through the presence of all that is needed for its end; as a man is complete by having all the members required for the operation of his soul, and a house by having all the parts needful for dwelling therein. And so this sacrament is [...]
Eucharist Quote: Pope St. John Paul II
"This is an aspect of the Eucharist which merits greater attention: in celebrating the sacrifice of the Lamb, we are united to the heavenly 'liturgy' and become part of that great multitude which cries out: 'Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!' (Rev 7:10). The Eucharist is truly [...]