Inspirational phrases to fuel your devotion to the Eucharist
1. Saint John Chrysostom:“He gave his all, reserving nothing for himself.” “Not taking communion would be the greatest contempt for Jesus who feels “lovesick” (Song 2:4-5)”.
2.Saint Bonaventure:“Although coldly approach, trusting in God’s mercy.”
3.San Francisco de Sales:“Two types of people must take communion frequently: the perfect to remain perfect, and the imperfect to reach perfection.”
4.Saint Teresa of Ávila:“There is no better way to achieve perfection.” “Let us not miss such a great opportunity to negotiate with God. He doesn’t usually pay badly for accommodation if we receive him well.” “We must be in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, like the Saints in heaven, before the Divine Essence.”
5.São Bernardo:“Communion represses our passions: anger and sensuality mainly.” “When Jesus is bodily present in us, around us, the angels stand guard with love.”
6.Saint Ambrose:“I who always sin, always need the medicine within my reach.”
7.Saint Gregory Nazianzen:“This bread from heaven requires hunger. He wants to be desired.”
“The Blessed Sacrament is a fire that inflames us so that, removing it from the altar, we spread such flames of love that make us terrible in hell.”
8.Saint Thomas Aquinas:“Communion destroys the temptation of the devil.”
Council of Trent: “Medicine by which we are freed from everyday failures and preserved from mortal sins”.
9.Saint Alphonsus of Ligório:“Daily communion cannot coexist with the desire to appear, vanity in dress, the pleasures of gluttony, comfort, frivolous and malicious conversations. It demands prayer, mortification, recollection.” “Be certain that every moment of your life, the time you spend before the Divine Sacrament will be what will give you more strength during your life, more consolation at the time of death and throughout eternity”.
10.Saint Augustine:“It is not we who transform Jesus Christ into us, as we do with the other foods we eat, but it is Jesus Christ who transforms us into him.”
“Since God was omnipotent, he could not give more; Being very wise, he didn’t know how to give more; and being very rich, he had nothing more to give”.
“The Eucharist is our daily bread that we take as a medicine for our daily weaknesses.”
“In the Eucharist, Mary perpetuates and extends her motherhood.”
Pray with Rogerinha Moreira’s song “Comunhão Quero Ter”: