Quotes from Saints about the Blessed Sacrament
If the world understood the importance of receiving Holy Communion and of Jesus’ presence in the Eucharist, all the police in the world would not be enough to keep order in churches, for Christians would rush there day and night.
(Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus)
It would be easier for this earth on which we live to exist without the sun than without the Mass and the Eucharist.
(Saint Padre Pio)
If some people spent even one hour a week before the Blessed Sacrament, abortion would immediately disappear from our world.
(Mother Teresa)
Holy Communion is one of the two pillars of the world. The second is devotion to the Virgin Mary.
(Saint John Bosco)
My joy and delight are to throw myself at the feet of the tabernacle, like a dog that throws itself at its master’s feet.
(Saint John Mary Vianney, the Curé of Ars)
O man, how often do you say: “If only I could see His face, touch His garments, see His sandals!” But you, O man, see Him, touch Him, and even eat Him, for He has given you His life. Your desire is therefore no longer only to see Him: Christ Jesus has become your food and your bread.
(Saint John Chrysostom)
Why should I fear death, when I have my remedy, namely the Eucharist?
(Blessed Father Jacques the Capuchin)
If angels could feel jealousy toward human beings on earth, that jealousy would have only one cause: the Blessed Sacrament.
(Saint Maximilian Kolbe)
How I love feast days, and especially Eucharistic processions! What joy fills me when I scatter roses beneath the steps of my Lord! And I am never happier than when the sun touches the roses I throw, that sun which bears the Blessed Sacrament within it.
(Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus)
Ah! Beloved Jesus, what made You become so small under the form of the Blessed Sacrament?… Yes, my Lord, it is love.
(Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)
Jesus Christ, present in the mystery of the Eucharist, is the beating heart and the essential driving force of our churches and dioceses.
(Blessed Pope Paul VI)
Christ Jesus carried His own body in His hands when He said to His disciples: “This is my body…” Therefore, none of us believers can take part in this divine banquet without first adoring the mystery of the Eucharist, who is Jesus Himself.
(Saint Augustine)
If Jesus Christ had not commanded His disciples to feed the crowds who followed Him, they would have grown weary and fallen along the way. Jesus acted in this way to make us understand and teach us that we cannot go from earth to heaven without the bread of heaven.
(Saint Jerome)
The greatest crime of our time is to turn away from the Eucharist. Sow hosts, and you will reap saints.
(Blessed Father Jacques the Capuchin)
O Holy Host, source of divine sweetness, You strengthen my soul. You, the Almighty One who took flesh from the Virgin, come secretly into my heart, hidden from my senses.
(Saint Faustina)
O my Beloved, how gentle and humble of heart You appear to me beneath the veil of the white Host! You cannot humble Yourself any further to teach me humility.
(Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus)
When you gaze upon the Crucified One, you realize how much Jesus loved you. When you gaze upon the Blessed Sacrament, you realize how much Jesus loves you now.
(Mother Teresa)
O faithful one, Jesus Christ, present in the mystery of the Blessed Sacrament, is truly our daily bread. Receive this Eucharistic bread every day, so that it may strengthen you daily. Live in such a way as to be able to receive it every day, for whoever is not worthy to receive it every day is no more worthy to receive it once a year.
(Saint Ambrose)
The mystery of the Eucharist is the strongest and most radiant proof of Jesus’ love for us. There is nothing greater beyond it, except Jesus Himself, seated in heaven.
(Saint Peter Julian Eymard)
Know and remember, O man, that when you approach the tabernacle, the holy Lord who is present there has waited for you for twenty centuries and will wait for you for just as long.
(Saint Josemaría Escrivá)
