"The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through [...]
"There is not, in effect, a more powerful means of sanctification in the Church than the Holy Eucharist, which is Itself the Source of every grace." Source: ÿSt. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist
"PRAYER is our sanctification by means of God. It ought, then, to produce reformation of manners. That is the immediate end of prayer, its practical conclusion, its necessary result. Above all, in this matter, let us not forget that 'not they who say, Lord, Lord, shall possess the kingdom of heaven, but they who faithfully [...]
"Prayer ought to be not only the grace of our sanctification, but its principal exercise, the virtue of virtues. By it you will have the virtues of your state, because, being a virtue which has God for immediate object, it attracts the other virtues after it and makes use of them to exercise itself." [...]
"Let all vain ornament be banished, and every hurtful glance, and all wanton gait, and every flowing robe, and perfume enticing to pleasure. But in all for perfume let there be the prayer of sweet odour, and the practice of good works, and the sanctification of our bodies: that the Virgin-born Lord may say even [...]
"The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through [...]
"There is not, in effect, a more powerful means of sanctification in the Church than the Holy Eucharist, which is Itself the Source of every grace." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist