Without the Word of God no creature has being. God’s Word is in all creation, visible and invisible. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. All creation is awakened, called, by the resounding melody, God’s invocation of the Word. This Word manifests in every creature.Now this is how the spirit is in the flesh – the Word is indivisible from God.
— Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Scruples, too… hinder devotion; for they are like thorns which prick the conscience and diquiet it, and will not allow it to find repose and comfort in God.
— Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
By the Sacraments, and especially by the Eucharist, Jesus Christ comes down to enrich us with His grace. He pours it out upon us without measure, for He also is a limitless ocean whose fullness overflows upon us without ever being exhausted.
–Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935)
Our Redeemer, ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hand to everyone. He opens His heart and says, “Come to Me, all of You.”
— Saint Raphael Kalinowski (1835-1907)
Strive to increase from day to day your faith in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, and never cease to wonder at the miraculous mystery of it, reflecting on how God manifests Himself to you in the guise of bread and wine, and becomes essentially present in you, to make you more holy, righteous and blessed. For blessed are they who do not see, yet believe; according to the words of the Savior (cf. Jn. 20:29).
— Lawrence Scupoli (1529-1610)
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.
–Saint Angela of Foligno (1248-1309)
