Twenty-Five Quotes about the Eucharist from the Saints

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The Sacrament of the Eucharist was instituted during Holy Week on Holy Thursday.

The Catholic Church has always believed in the Real Presence of the Jesus in the Eucharist.

As we contemplate the many things that happened during the last week of Jesus life, let’s take time to reflect on the quotes of the saints over the years on the meaning of the Eucharist.

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

St. John Vianncy

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

St. John Vianney

3. 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.

St. Bernedette Soubirouse

4. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.

St. John Paul II

5. It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

St. Padre Pio

6. Receive Communion often, very often…there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus did not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.

S. Therese of Lisieux

7. The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us.

St. John Damascene

8. The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white host.

St. Fulton Sheen

9. 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.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

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10. O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and Son of God, should humble Himself like this and hide under the form of a little bread for our salvation.

St. Francis Assisi

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11. The saints all their lives long were like men rejoicing at a feast.

St. Athanatius

12. The Lord comes into us Sacramentally in order to live there Spiritually.

St. Peter Julian Eymard

13. If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.

St. Lydia

14. In the Blessed Sacrament a heavenly school is open to me, with the best teacher one can possibly imagine…Jesus Christ himself!

St. John XXIII

15. If angels could be jealous of me, they would be so for this reason; Holy Communion.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

16. The Eucharist is the food of eternal life.

St.Therese of Lisieux

17. We do not go to communion because we are good. We go to communion to become good.

St. John Bosco

18. The Eucharist is a never ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the Supreme love, the act of love.

St. Katherine Drexel

19. 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.

St. Dominic Savio

20. At Communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves inclined.

St. Philip Neri

21. I understand that each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later on the beatific vision of God.

St. Gertrude the Great