Holy Communion Quotes

• Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Jesus, Night

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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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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• When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

  John Vianney

  Sacrifice, Joy, Body

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• We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.

  John Bosco

  Holy, Communion

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• Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.

  John Vianney

  Jesus, Blood, Adorable

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• Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

  John the Baptist

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Important, Christ

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• If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

  Pope Pius X

  Angel, Envy, Holy

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• As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Two, Together, Pieces

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• When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

  John Vianney

  Flower, Sacrifice, Soul

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• Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

  Saint Augustine

  Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Way

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• Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.

  Shankarananda

  Creation, Holy, Communion

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• Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

  Pope Pius X

  Children, Heaven, Endurance

  "Quotable Saints" by Ronda Chervin, (p. 79), 2003.

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• If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.

  Angela of Foligno

  Gratitude, Heart, Fire Of Love

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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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• ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

  Francis of Assisi

  Eye, Son, Holy Eucharist

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Holy, Communion, Remedy

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• If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Years, Holy Eucharist

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• One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Christian, Fall, Soul

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• When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Angel, Sanctuary

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• This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

  Cyprian

  Christian, Bread, Holy

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• Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Oasis

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• In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Jesus

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• What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Eye, Humble

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• The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.

  Mary Potter

  Lord, Holy, Communion

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