"God told Abraham to quit the land of Ur, because in it he would not be able to sanctify himself. He made Lot, also, leave Gommorrha, although he was a saint in the midst of that abominable city. God acted prudently. The highest prudence, and the most laudable, is to shun danger. Who is that [...]
"It is in the Blessed Sacrament that Jesus ought to be your end, therefore, perform all your actions in view of Holy Communion. Let that be the pivot of your day, the centre of your life, whence all radiates and to which all converges. Let all you do, be a preparation to receive Our Lord, [...]
"Nothing is more frightfully true than this principle, namely, that what has once enslaved us always retains its power over us, even after our deliverance. It is the law of strength against weakness, the chastisement that sin brings with it. Hence it is, that so many persons converted and purified, fall back on the first [...]
Today's virtue quote summarizes why I started Eucharistic Virtue. In the quote, St. Eymard describes how practicing purity leads to all the virtues and ultimately to becoming a perfect adorer of the Lord. This is our goal and reason for being - to love and adore the Father Almighty, Jesus the Son and the Holy [...]
"By purity, by increasing and guarding it, you will practice all the virtues, and you will become perfect adorers. If your conscience is pure, your service will be pure and worthy of the good God. You would be ashamed to come to adore Our Lord with a sullied heart, and to place Him on a [...]
"How is it that even very old religious turn their back on the Lord, to whom they had pledged themselves, and return to the world as apostates? They go away of themselves without any one's sending them, by the simple consequence of their own negligence, which has degenerated into an inveterate habit of sin. They [...]
"Act always through love for Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Do all for Him, and nothing but for Him alone." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. This religious order is "a Catholic religious [...]
"True, God is everywhere, but we have need for Him to draw near to us under sensible signs, and this is what He does in the Blessed Sacrament. Think, then, that He is there. That Presence is sweeter, is recalled more easily than the presence of the invisible, the impalpable Divinity. It is less easily [...]
"Have you no longer any sentiment of your sins? and, if you do see them, do you correct them? No, I am constantly falling back into the same faults, without paying any great attention to it. Then, are you already dead! You are without feeling! There is no state more frightful than that in which [...]
"We ought to serve God, for we are His creatures and His property. Although God gives us liberty, He does not mean to relinquish His rights over us. We belong to Him, we are His; and should we endeavor to free ourselves by disobedience, which is a true robbery of God's goods, a denial of [...]