Sacraments Quotes - Page 11

• The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.

  John of the Cross

  Spring, Night, Bread Of Life

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh (1991). “The collected works of Saint John of the Cross”, I C S Publications, Institute of Carmelite Studies

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• He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful.

  Peter Chrysologus

  Passion, Faithful, Church

  Peter Chrysologus (2010). “Selected Sermons; Homilies”, p.117, CUA Press

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• Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.

  Gemma Galgani

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

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• If the Word of God is living and powerful, and if the Lord does all things whatsoever he wills; if he said, "Let there be light", and it happened; if he said, "let there be a firmament", and it happened; ...if finally the Word of God himself willingly became man and made flesh for himself out of the most pure and undefiled blood of the holy and ever Virgin, why should he not be capable of making bread his Body and wine and water his Blood?... God said, "This is my Body", and "This is my Blood."

  John of Damascus

  Powerful, Wine, Men

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• The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel... When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Jesus, Strong, Blessed

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• Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Powerful, Wine, Blood

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• Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them

  Peter of Alcantara

  Blessed, Hands, Grace

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• The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

  Origen

  Giving, Water, Baptism

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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 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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• Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Blessed, Here I Am

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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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• Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Christian, Jesus, Blessed

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• Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

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• The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name

  Edith Stein

  Heart, Holy Eucharist, Names

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• This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Blessed, Taken

  Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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• Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this "clean oblation" (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.

  Pope Pius XII

  Father, Race, Dying

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• Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Memories, Blessed

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• The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

  Frederic Ozanam

  Each Day, Half, Way

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• In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

  Penny Lernoux

  Numbers, People, Catholic

  "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.

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• Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal. life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if he continue as a heretic after having been baptized.

  Fulgentius of Cartagena

  Home, Heaven, Baptism

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

  Edward M Hays

  Money, Simple, Expression

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• The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

  Andrew Greeley

  Love Is, Hands, Friendly

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

  Saint Augustine

  Blood, Bread, Body Of Christ

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• Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Flesh, Mary

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