Promoting Belief in and Reverence for our Eucharistic Lord
“Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the most tender of friends with souls who seek to please Him. His goodness knows how to proportion itself to the smallest of His creatures as to the greatest of them. Be not afraid then in your solitary conversations, to tell Him of your miseries, fears, worries, of those who are dear to you, of your projects, and of your hopes. Do so with confidence and with an open heart.”
St. Damien of Molokai
“How sweet is the moment in which poor humanity, wearied and afflicted, may remain alone, with Jesus alone, in the Sacrament of Love; for there the Lord, with His flaming heart open, calls unto all, ‘You that are burdened and heavy laden, come unto Me and I will refresh you.’ Happy are those hearts that know how to satisfy the
unquenchable hunger and thirst in this heavenly banquet!”
Father. M.J. Corcoran, O.S.A.
“Our Redeemer ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hands to
everyone. He opens His heart and says, ‘Come to Me, all of you.'”
St. Raphael Kalinowski, O.C.D.
(From “They Have Been With Jesus” by Rev. Franklyn M. McAfee)
“I believe that today we are entering into the reign of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. In
the midst of the winter in the world and even in the Church today innumerable little
shoots are sprouting up through the snow. These shoots are chapels of Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration growing up around the world… I encourage you to soak up the
healing rays of the Sun of Justice and do all you can to promote Perpetual Adoration.”
Rev. Harold F. Cohen, S.J
“It is for us, during eighteen now [twenty] hundred years, our Divine Savior has remained day and night on our altars, that we may have recourse to Him in all our needs; and nothing so much afflicts His Divine Heart as our ingratitude for such a favor, and our neglect to visit Him and ask His blessing. If we knew how profitable those visits are, we should be constantly prostrate before the altar.”
(Saint J. B. Marcellin Champagnat)
“It is there in His Eucharist that He says to me: “I thirst, thirst for your love, your
sacrifices, your sufferings. I thirst for your happiness, for it was to save you that I
came into the world, that I suffered and died on the Cross, and in order to console and
strengthen you I left you the Eucharist. So you have there all My life, all My
tenderness.”
Mother Mary of Jesus, Foundress of the Sisters of Marie Reparatrice
St. Pedro Maldonado
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“We must return to the Eucharist with a purified heart, with a renewed amazement, with an increased desire to meet the Lord, to be with Him, to receive Him and to bring Him to our brothers and sisters with the witness of a life full of faith, love and hope.”
Robert Cardinal Sarah
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“St John Mary Vianney liked to tell his parishioners: “Come to communion…. It is true that you are not worthy of it, but you need it”. With the knowledge of being inadequate because of sin, but needful of nourishing ourselves with the love that the Lord offers us in the Eucharistic sacrament, let us renew our faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. We must not take this faith for granted! Today we run the risk of secularization creeping into the Church too. It can be translated into formal and empty Eucharistic worship, into celebrations lacking that heartfelt participation that is expressed in veneration and in respect for the liturgy. The temptation to reduce prayer to superficial, hasty moments, letting ourselves be overpowered by earthly activities and concerns, is always strong. When we recite the Our Father, the prayer par excellence, we say: “Give us this day our daily bread”, thinking of course of the bread of each day for us and for all peoples. But this request contains something deeper. The Greek word epioúsios, that we translate as “daily”, could also allude to the “super-stantial” bread, the bread “of the world to come”. Some Fathers of the Church saw this as a reference to the Eucharist, the bread of eternal life, the new world, that is already given to us in Holy Mass, so that from this moment the future world may begin within us. With the Eucharist, therefore, Heaven comes down to earth, the future of God enters the present and it is as though time were embraced by divine eternity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I Thirst for Your Love! 
