Eucharist Quotes

• The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

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• There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

  John Vianney

  Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Holy Mass

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• The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Inspiration, White

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• The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Heaven, Proof

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• Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Soul, Catholic Saint

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• Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mean, Holy Eucharist, Catholic

  Alcuin Reid, Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization”, p.81, A&C Black

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• From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Share

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church in India”

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• God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

  Saint Augustine

  Omnipotence, Giving, Riches

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• When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Work

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• When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Waiting

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• The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us

  John of Damascus

  Fire, Sacraments

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• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Romance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Joy, Soul

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love You, Holy Eucharist

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• God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven

  Paschal Baylon

  Heaven, Host, Glory

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• The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

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• Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

  Pope Pius X

  Holy Eucharist, Christian Inspirational, Heaven

  "Quotable Saints". Book by Ronda Chervin, p. 79, 2003.

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• Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Father, Giving, Soul

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• I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Blood, Holy Eucharist

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• Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Thursday

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

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• Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

  Francis of Assisi

  Father, Hands, Thrones

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• If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not for this opportunity to place ourselves in the very real presence of God, if it were not for the sacrament that reminds us of His love, His suffering and His triumph, which indeed perpetuates for us His saving sacrifice on the cross, I am sure that I could never face the challenges of my life, my own weakness and sinfulness and my own need to reach out to the Living God.

  Theodore Edgar McCarrick

  Real, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Blessed, Catholic, Earth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Blessed, Holy Eucharist

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