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.
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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.
4. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.
5. It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.
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.
8. The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white host.
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.
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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.
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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.
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13. If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.
St. Lydia
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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
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15. If angels could be jealous of me, they would be so for this reason; Holy Communion.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
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16. The Eucharist is the food of eternal life.
17. We do not go to communion because we are good. We go to communion to become good.
18. The Eucharist is a never ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the Supreme love, the act of love.
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.
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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.
22. The Eucharist is the Sacrament of love. It signifies love,it produces love.
23. From the Eucharist comes the strength to live the christian life and to share that life with others
24. Father, I am hungry. For the love of God give this soul her food in the Eucharist!
25. Jesus is my great friend and the Eucharist is my highway to heaven!
