Sacraments Quotes - Page 21

We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in respect to neglect the divine Guest who awaits us? He dwells there, really present, He who was present in the crib, at Nazareth, upon the mountains of Judea, in the supper-room, upon the Cross. It is the same Jesus who said to the Samaritan woman, 'If thou didst know the gift of God!'

Columba Marmion

Jesus, Mountain, Guests

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To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems

Pope John XXIII

Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when he would leave this earth, in order that his absence might not cause us to forget him, left us as a memorial this Blessed Sacrament, in which he himself remained; for he would not that there should be any other pledge to keep alive our remembrance of him than he himself.

Peter of Alcantara

Jesus, Blessed, Greatness

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We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

Saint Augustine

Sin, Christ, Adore

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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall not resist. He allows humans to keep him wherever they wish-in monstrance or tabernacle; to carry him in procession; to bring him into the homes of the sick and dying; to dispense him to all, whether saint or sinner. The gospel tells how marvelously he obeyed Mary and Joseph. Today he obeys every priest in the world.

Alphonsus Liguori

Kings, Home, Sick

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I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist

Peter Julian Eymard

Fire, Holy Eucharist, Trying

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Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist

Peter Julian Eymard

Earth, Action, Divine

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The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in all things in the spirit of love which prompted Our Lord to institute the Holy Eucharist, wherein He perpetuates the gift of His love to the glory of the Father.

Peter Julian Eymard

Father, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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I come, O Lord, unto Thy sanctuary to see the life and food of my soul. As I hope in Thee, O Lord, inspire me with that confidence which brings me to Thy holy mountain. Permit me, Divine Jesus, to come closer to Thee, that my whole soul may do homage to the greatness of Thy majesty; that my heart, with its tenderest affections, may acknowledge Thine infinite love; that my memory may dwell on the admirable mysteries here renewed every day, and that the sacrifice of my whole being may accompany Thine.

Clare of Assisi

Jesus, Memories, Heart

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Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.

Catherine of Genoa

Long, Time Spent, Eucharistic

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My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I may leave my heart before the holy Sacrament. How I would miss Our Lord if He were to be away from me by His presence in the Blessed Sacrament!

Katharine Drexel

Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.

Andre Dubus

Philosophy, Thinking, Simple

Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

Kevin Hart

Prayer, Sunday, Thinking

"The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

Appreciate, Might, Wonder

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There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.

John Shelton Reed

Running, Jobs, Justice

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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

N. T. Wright

Church, Slides, Granted

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I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Peter Hollingworth

Issues, Done, Way

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We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail to see Him. Let us once become interior souls and we shall immediately see. In no better way can we enter into the Heart of our Lord than through Saint Joseph. Jesus and Mary are eager to pay the debts which they owe him for his devoted care of them, and their greatest pleasure is to fulfill his least desire. Let him, then, lead you by hand into the interior sanctuary of Jesus Eucharistic.

Peter Julian Eymard

Jesus, Blessed, Eye

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The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart.

Peter Julian Eymard

Heart, Sun, Lord

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In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.

Peter Julian Eymard

One Day, Lifetime, Glory

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Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but one for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready. Let us not forfeit even one of them

Peter Julian Eymard

Jesus, Everyday, Host

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Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing

Peter Julian Eymard

Blessed, Passion, Accomplish Nothing

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Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

Henry Suso

Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

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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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This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain

Margaret of Cortona

Morning, Heaven, Soul

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