Holy Eucharist Quotes:

O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou dost urge me to come to Thee.

- Ildefonsus

topic: Jesus, Heart, Holy Eucharist

The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.

- Peter Julian Eymard

topic: Holy Eucharist, World, May

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

- Pope John Paul II

source: 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”

topic: Christian, Holy Eucharist, Thursday, Last Supper, Supper Time

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

topic: Jesus, Blessed, Holy Eucharist, Eucharistic Adoration, Eucharist

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

topic: Jesus, Heart, Holy Eucharist, Holy Communion, Eucharist

The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.

- Angela of Foligno

topic: Holy Eucharist, Perfection, Humanity, Thrice

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Hands, Holy Eucharist, Flesh, Holy Communion, Blessed Sacrament

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

topic: Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Way, Holy Communion, Chalice

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

- Saint Augustine

topic: Eye, Holy Eucharist, Blood, Chalice, Church Fathers

When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Holy Eucharist, Holy Communion, Blessed Sacrament

How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Holy Eucharist, Shoes, Giving, Holy Communion, Eucharistic Adoration

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

- John Vianney

topic: Sacrifice, Given, Eucharist, Holy Eucharist, Holy Mass

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

- Pope Pius X

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

topic: Heaven, Way, Holy, Eucharistic, Holy Communion

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

topic: Jesus, Night, Giving, Bread Of Life, Holy Communion

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

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Christian, Share, Eucharist, Holy Eucharist

In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Light, Eucharistic, Concealed

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

- Josemaria Escriva

topic: Waiting, Twenties, Remember, Eucharistic, Waiting For You

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world

- Mother Teresa

topic: Mother, Jesus, Blessed, Jesus Loves You, Eucharistic

...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

topic: Eye, Son, Blood, Holy Communion, Condescension And

Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing,

- Saint Peter

topic: Blessed, Passionate, Lord, Passionate Love, Eucharistic Adoration

The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man since It is the quintessence of all the mysteries of His Life.

- Peter Julian Eymard

topic: Jesus, Men, Expression, Quintessence, Holy Eucharist

Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you- for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart... don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Faith, Jesus, Heart, Holy Communion, Eucharist

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

topic: Jesus, Blessed, Helpful, Holy Communion, Eucharistic Adoration

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

topic: Jesus, Blood, Long, Last Supper, Supper Time

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

- Dominic Savio

topic: Jesus, Saint, Confession, Holy Eucharist

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Soul, Tents, Guests, Holy Communion, Blessed Sacrament

Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.

- Pope Leo XIII

topic: World, Belief, Holy, Renovation, Holy Eucharist

In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Son, Catholic, Church, Eucharistic, Eucharistic Adoration

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

topic: Mean, Catholic, Way, Liturgy, Eucharist

Every morning during meditation, I prepare myself for the whole day's struggle. Holy Communion assures me that I will win the victory; and so it is. I fear the day when I do not receive Holy Communion. This bread of the Strong gives me all the strength I need to carry on my mission and the courage to do whatever the Lord asks of me. The courage and strength that are in me are not of me, but of Him who lives in me - it is the Eucharist.

- Mary Faustina Kowalska

topic: Strong, Morning, Struggle, Holy Communion, I Will Win

As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Men, Baptism, Done, Divine Life, Eucharist

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.

- Peter Julian Eymard

topic: Spiritual, Age, Charity, Eucharistic Adoration, Holy Eucharist

Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations are greater than at any other period, and this persecution is more dangerous than those of previous times. Hence, the devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

- Pope Leo XIII

topic: Special, Church, Lord, Holy Eucharist

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

topic: Heart, Names, Giving, Divine Will, Docile

United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Angel, Church, Covenant, Eucharist, Holy Eucharist

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

topic: Jesus, Hard Work, Support, Holy Communion, Eucharist

'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Jesus, Children, Blood, Church Fathers, Transubstantiation

If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Sometimes, Devotion, Holy, Holy Communion, Fervor

O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart of the Most High made man.... Thy Sacred Heart is the instrument and organ of Thy love. It did beat for us. It yearned for us. It ached for our salvation. It was on fire through zeal, that the glory of God might be manifested in and by us.... In worshipping thee I worship my incarnate God, my Emmanuel

- John Henry Newman

topic: Jesus, Art, Men, Emmanuel, Eucharist

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

topic: Years, Doe, May, Holy Communion, Daily Bread

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

- St. Jerome

topic: Heaven, Trying, Desert, Holy Communion, Blessed Sacrament

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

topic: Gratitude, Heart, Fire, Last Supper, Supper Time

I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist

- Peter Julian Eymard

topic: Fire, Trying, Holy, Holy Eucharist

When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Flower, Taken, Son, Eucharistic, Nectar

When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift; but we also encounter the Passion, the Cross of Jesus and his Resurrection. Through this gaze of adoration, he draws us toward himself, within his mystery, through which he wants to transform us as he transformed the Host.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Jesus, Passion, Greatness, Holy Eucharist

The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven, is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. And this existence remains present, after the sacrifice, in the Blessed Sacrament, which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches.

- Pope Paul VI

source: "The Credo of the People of God: a theological commentary".

topic: Jesus, Blessed, Heart, Eucharistic Adoration, Eucharist

How I loved the feasts!.... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance.

- Therese of Lisieux

source: St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.153, ICS Publications

topic: Flower, Blessed, Feet, Eucharistic Adoration, Blessed Sacrament

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

topic: Father, Heart, Needs, Holy Eucharist

O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces in the Eucharist; to live over again the Gospel story and to read it in the light of the Eucharistic Life of Jesus. Remember, O our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that thou art the Mother of all adorers of the Holy Eucharist

- Peter Julian Eymard

topic: Mother, Art, Jesus, Holy Eucharist