Holy Communion Quotes

Holy Communion Quotes

 In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.- St. Augustine

There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass. - St. Lawrence Justinian

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. - Saint Peter Julian Eymard

He said: This is my Body; therefore the Eucharist is not the figure of his Body and Blood, as some have said, talking nonsense in their stupid minds, but it is in very truth the Blood and Body of Christ. - St. Macarius the Great

How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy. - Saint 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. - Saint Peter Julian Eymard

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.—St. John Chrysostom

God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar." "He remains among us until the end of the world. He dwells on so many altars, though so often offended and profaned.

The culmination of the Mass is not the consecration, but Communion. - St. Maximilian Kolbe

The two principal dispositions which we should bring to Holy Communion are detachment from creatures, and the desire to receive Our Lord with a view to loving Him more in the future. - St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

As I was about to receive Holy Communion, our Lord told me that He would come Himself to imprint on my heart the mystical life which He leads in the Holy Eucharist, a life entirely hidden and annihilated in the eyes of men, a life of sacrifice and seeming inactivity. He added that He would Himself give me the strength to do what He required of me.  - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

O my children, how beautiful will that soul be in eternity, who makes frequent and good Communions! - St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

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.  - St. Ambrose of Milan

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven. -Pope St. Pius X

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.  - St. Josemaria Escriva

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.  - St. Thomas Aquinas

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... 

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

I throw myself at the foot of the Tabernacle like a dog at the foot of his Master. - St. John Vianney

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind. - St. Cyprian

The devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble, because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because it gives us the Author of Grace; it is the sweetest, because the Lord is Sweetness Itself. -  Pope St. Pius X

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. - Saint Peter Julian Eymard

Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth. - Saint Peter Julian Eymard

The Blessed Sacrament is indeed the stimulus for us all, for me as it should be for you, to forsake all worldly ambitions. Without the constant presence of our Divine Master upon the altar in my poor chapels, I never could have persevered casting my lot with the lepers of Molokai; the foreseen consequence of which begins now to appear on my skin, and is felt throughout the body. Holy Communion being the daily bread of a priest, I feel myself happy, well pleased, and resigned in the rather exceptional circumstances in which it has pleased Divine Providence to put me. - Blessed Fr. Damien, Apostle of the Lepers

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