Saints’ Quotes on Jesus in The Eucharist

A while back, I published an article on “Saints’ Quotes on Praising Mary, the Mother of God.” Developing a strong devotion to our Mother Mary has been proven to be the fastest and most effective route to totally trust in, and to worship her Son, Jesus. And since Jesus is the Eucharist, it also seems worthwhile to see what the saints had to say about the Sacrament of Sacraments, the Holy Eucharist.

We know from sacred Scripture that the Eucharist is the continuation of the everlasting Passover meal in a new form: instead of eating an earthly lamb as the sacrificial meal and drinking ordinary wine in the Old Covenant, now we consume the actual Lamb of God and drink His real blood in the New Covenant. This is why it’s called Holy COMMUNION, because we are then one with Christ (1 Corinthians 6:17), He abides in us and we in Him (John 6:56), and Jesus gives us the glory Our Father gave to Him (John 17:22). Just like eating a plastic banana (a symbol of a real banana) would not give us the nourishment that a real banana would, just so, eating a symbol of Jesus would not make us one with Christ. However, in the Eucharist we consume the actual Lamb of God and drink his blood.

After Holy Communion, we have the true blood of Jesus Christ flowing in our veins, which means that we are now blood relatives of the King of Kings (servants on earth now, but royalty as princes and princesses in heaven later). No longer are we Jesus’ relatives by physical birth, like it says in Matthew 1. By consuming Jesus as the Eucharist, we are both spiritually, and bodily, relatives of the Lion of Judah, whom the devil really despises. Thus, the devil tries to devour US as a roaring lion. Lucifer hates the Eucharist because eating it overcomes the consuming of the forbidden fruit in the garden, and also overcomes his lies:

1. Satan said that if you eat the forbidden fruit, you will know right from wrong (a lie, because the more you sin, the less you know and care about doing what is right).
2. Satan said that if you eat the forbidden fruit, you will be like God (a lie, overcome by the Eucharist, because then Jesus abides in us, and we in Him).
3. Satan said that if you eat the forbidden fruit, you will not die (a lie, overcome by the Eucharist. Jesus says that if we eat His Body, we will live forever).

Saints’ Quotes On The Eucharist

St. Ignatius of Loyola

“One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.”

St. Ambrose of Milan

“If it is “daily bread,” why do you take it once a year? Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.”

St. Francis de Sales

“When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth’s sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.”

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

“With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind.”

St. Padre Pio

“Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.”

St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul Diary

“I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things…They treat Me as a dead object.” (1385)

“Every morning during meditation, I prepare myself for the whole day’s struggle. Holy Communion assures me that I will win the victory; and so it is. I fear the day when I do not receive Holy Communion. This bread of the Strong gives me all the strength I need to carry on my mission and the courage to do whatever the Lord asks of me. The courage and strength that are in me are not of me, but of Him who lives in me – it is the Eucharist.” (91)

St. Alphonsus Liguori

“Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest of the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.”

St. Maximilian Kolbe

You come to me and unite Yourself intimately to me under the form of nourishment. Your Blood now runs in mine, Your Soul, Incarnate God, compenetrates mine, giving courage and support. What miracles! Who would have ever imagined such!”

St. Ephraem

“O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.”

Mother Teresa

“Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.”

St. Angela of Foligno

“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.”

St. Augustine

“Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side… whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.”

“He who is all-knowing knew of nothing more that he could give than the Eucharist. He who is all-powerful could not do any more than he does in the sacrament and he who is all loving had nothing more that He could give. The Eucharist is a Divine storehouse filled with every virtue.”

St. Francis of Assisi

“What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation”

 

St. Francis de Sales

“When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.”

St. Ignatius of Antioch

“I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.”

St. Jerome

“If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.”

St. John Chrysostom

“How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.”

“When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.”

St. Therese of Lisieux

“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart…don’t listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.”

“Receive Communion often, very often. There you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.”

St. Cyprian

“This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.”

St. Maximilian Kolbe

“God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.” “He remains among us until the end of the world. He dwells on so many altars, though so often offended and profaned.”

Pope St. Pius X

“The devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble, because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because it gives us the Author of Grace; it is the sweetest, because the Lord is Sweetness Itself.”

St. Macarius the Great

“He said: This is my Body; therefore the Eucharist is not the figure of his Body and Blood, as some have said, talking nonsense in their stupid minds, but it is in very truth the Blood and Body of Christ.”

Saint Peter Julian Eymard

“How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy.”

“When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It’s our life and support in this life – Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.”

“Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveler. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.”

“Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world.”

St. Teresa of Avila

Here on earth it’s impossible to perform a more meritorious act than visiting Jesus often in the Eucharist. If you took all of the good works done by all of the humans who have ever lived in all of history and stacked them all up and multiplied them by a million, they wouldn’t equal the merit, the virtue and the worth of one Mass. The Eucharistic sacrifice is Christ’s infinite merit, infinite value.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

“Every time you visit the Church for the love of Christ, His heart draws us in an embrace of sheer delight. The tabernacle is like Mary’s womb wherein dwells the same Christ who reigns above, adored by angels, He who enters our bodies and souls.”