"Do all your actions as a preparation for Holy Communion. Converse with Jesus Christ who reigns in your heart by His grace. Think how He will come on the altar and from there into your soul to visit it and to enrich it with all sorts of good things and happiness." Source: St. John [...]
"Observe the earnestness of the Magi in seeking Jesus Christ in the manger. See holy Magdalen, as she eagerly seeks the risen Saviour. Do you seek Jesus Christ with the same desire, the same ardour, and nothing will hinder you from receiving Him. Long to communicate because there is nothing so great as the Eucharist. [...]
"As this sacrament is a sacrament of faith, we must believe firmly that Jesus Christ is really present in the Holy Eucharist, that He is there living and glorious as He is in heaven." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"Set to work to destroy in yourself all that is not pleasing to Jesus Christ, to speak willingly to those who have caused you pain, to be pleased to see them, to love them sincerely, to practice the perfect renouncement of yourselves and you will see how your Communion will carry you forward with great [...]
"Before giving His adorable Body and precious Blood Jesus washed the feet of the Apostles to show us that we must be free from sin, even the slightest, and that we should have no affection for them. The purity of Jesus is so great that the least fault prevents us from being united to Him [...]
"Even thus Jesus Christ will say at the hour of death to those who have the misfortune of receiving Him into their hearts unworthily. 'Why have you had the audacity to receive Me when you were stained with so many sins?' No, never forget that to communicate we must be truly converted, and have a [...]
"We must, before going to the Holy Table, be sure that we have spent sufficient time in examination of conscience in order to discover our mortal sins, and that we have a great sorrow also, that our confession has thus been entire. We must have a firm determination to do, by the grace of God, [...]
"If one could understand all the blessings contained in Holy Communion nothing else would content the heart of man. The miser would no longer run after his treasures, nor the ambitious after glory. Everyone would shake the dust of earth from their feet and would fly towards heaven." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations [...]
"Without the Blessed Eucharist there would no longer be any happiness in this world, life would be unbearable. When we receive Holy Communion we receive our joy and all our good." Source: St. John Vianney, The Meditations of the Curé D’Ars
"Jesus Christ will raise up our bodies as much more glorious as we shall have more often and more worthily received Him. There is nothing we do which adorns the body more for Heaven than Holy Communion. At the day of Judgment, the body of Our Lord will shine through our glorified body. His adorable [...]