Eucharist, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
The river of God is brimming with water; that is to say, we are inundated by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And from that fountain of life the river of God pours into us in full flood. We also have food prepared for us. And who is this food? It is he in whom we are prepared for life with God, for by receiving his holy body we receive a place in the communion of his holy body… These gifts enter us like a gentle rain, and once having done so, little by little, they bring forth fruit in abundance.
–Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300-368)
Eucharist, Evangelization, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Christ who has been sacrificed on the altar is laid in the tomb of their hearts. There is no place where he will not come: prisons, hospitals, schools, camps, ships at sea, cathedrals and little tin churches; he comes to them all. He comes into the houses of the sick and the dying, regardless whether they are mansions or slums.
He comes to all kinds of people, from little children at First Communion, who bring him their first tender acts of love and reparation to be myrrh and aloes on his wounds, to old sinners who open their empty hearts to him hurriedly, at the last minute, just as Joseph of Arimathea’s empty tomb was opened hurriedly, at the last minute before the feast, to receive his crucified body.
Every day crowds of unknown people come to him, who feel as hard, as cold, as empty as the tomb. They come with the first light, before going to the day’s work, and with the grey mind of early morning, hardly able to concentrate at all on the mystery which they themselves are part of: impelled only by the persistent will of love, not by any sweetness of consolation, and it seems to them as if nothing happens at all. But Christ’s response to that dogged, devoted will of a multitude of insignificant people is his coming to life in them, his Resurrection in their souls.
–Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)
Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Do you know what Mass is? In the Church it is what the sun is in our world, it is the soul of our faith, the center of our religion, the end and center of all the ceremonies, rites and sacraments. In a word it is the summary of all that is beautiful and good in the Church of God.
— Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (1676-1751)
Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made invisible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.
–Saint Gerard Majella (1726-1755)
