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Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day. -- Martin Chemnitz
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision. -- Roger Mahony
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life -- Pope John Paul II
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth -- Bernard of Clairvaux
From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others -- Pope John Paul II
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point. -- Karl Lehmann
Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things! -- Peter Julian Eymard
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist. -- Pope Leo XIII
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist -- St. Catherine of Siena
The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion. -- Thomas Aquinas
The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself -- Peter Julian Eymard
In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it. -- Peter Julian Eymard
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. -- John Vianney
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
My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. -- Greg Boyle
The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, 'Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.' -- Bernadette Soubirous
If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist. -- Mother Teresa
I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up. -- Sarah Bolger
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
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven -- Pope Pius XII
But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass. -- Linda Vester
To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God. -- Meir Soloveichik
All for the Eucharist; nothing for me -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us -- John of Damascus
The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist -- Pope Pius X
Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The Eucharist is everything, because from the Eucharist, everything is -- Peter Julian Eymard
I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist -- Peter Julian Eymard
Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self. -- Katharine Drexel
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. -- Henri Nouwen
We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist. -- Mother Teresa
The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God. -- Thomas Aquinas
Harness the fire hidden in The Eucharist to bring about a true brotherhood and unity. -- Jaime Sin
... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings. -- Scot McKnight
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist. -- Pope Benedict XVI
...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike. -- Patrick T. McCormick
The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love. -- Katharine Drexel
The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom. -- Pope John Paul II
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist. -- Robert Frost
The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace. -- Pope Francis
The Eucharist is the link that binds the Christian family together. Take away the Eucharist and you have no brotherliness left -- Peter Julian Eymard
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
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. -- Pope Benedict XVI
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist -- Pope John Paul II
The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil. -- Saint John Chrysostom
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there? -- Blaise Pascal
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged. -- Shane Claiborne
The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak. -- Pope Francis
I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this. -- James Anthony Froude
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
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
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When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs... -- Pope John Paul II
With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity. -- Pope Benedict XVI
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life. -- Pope John Paul II
Mary found again in the adorable Host the adorable fruit of her womb... and began in the Cenacle her new maternity at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist -- Peter Julian Eymard
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
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
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls. -- Arthur Middleton
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love. -- Arthur Middleton
Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise -- Pope Pius X
The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine. -- Richard Rohr
The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table. -- Shane Claiborne
The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace. -- Pope John Paul II
I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery. -- Raniero Cantalamessa
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center. -- Peter Julian Eymard
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
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist -- Francois Mauriac
If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world. -- Peter Julian Eymard
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
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact. -- Francois Mauriac
And because Jesus is the Eucharist, keeping Him in the center allows all the rich doctrines of the Church to emanate from Him, just as the beautiful gold rays stream forth from the Host in the monstrance. -- Kimberly Hahn
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
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
Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist. -- Mother Teresa
Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others. -- Pope Francis
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
Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don't know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering. -- Peter Julian Eymard
The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope. -- Walter Brueggemann
I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love -- Pope Benedict XVI
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist. -- Pope John Paul II
Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist. -- William Everson
O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature. -- St. Catherine of Siena
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate -- Pope Leo XIII
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
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
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). -- Tim Crane
Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning. -- Peter Kreeft

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