Throughout the ages, the saints have proclaimed the Blessed Sacrament as the answer to all. Here, meditate upon the Eucharist with the Church’s most beloved saints.
Who Is The Most Blessed Sacrament?
God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of heaven.
– St. Paschal Baylon
The Pledge Of His Abiding Presence
The heavenly Sacrifice, instituted by Christ, is the most gracious legacy of His new covenant. On the night He was delivered up to be crucified, He left us this Gift as a pledge of His abiding Presence.
– St. Gaudentius of Brescia
The Pledge Of Our Salvation
Come, then, all you nations of men, receive forgiveness for the sins that defile you. I am your forgiveness. I am the Passover that brings salvation. I am the lamb who was immolated for you. I am your ransom, your life, your resurrection, your light; I am your salvation and your king. I will bring you to the heights of heaven. With My own right hand I will raise you up, and I will show you the eternal Father.
– St. Melito of Sardis
Why Adore?
To make room in our life for the Eucharistic Lord, so that He can change our life into His—is that asking too much?
– St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
To Adore Is To Love
Lord Jesus Christ, pierce my soul with Your love so that I may always long for You alone, who are the bread of angels and the fulfillment of the soul’s deepest desires. May my heart always hunger for You, so that my soul may be filled with the sweetness of Your presence.
– St. Bonaventure
Love . . . transforms the lover into the one loved.
– St. Paul of the Cross
The Eucharist is the sacrament of love; it signifies love; it produces love.
– St. Thomas Aquinas
I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.
– St. Margaret Mary
You have cast yourself into the abyss of that divine solitude. Love and be silent, be silent and love! What silence, what sacred silence, what deep and holy love!
– St. Paul of the Cross
What a tremendous delight, my God! To spend over fifteen hours without anything else to do but look at You and tell You, “Lord, I love You!”
– Bl. Charles de Foucauld
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete.
– Pope St. John Paul II
Loving souls can find no greater delight than to be in the company of those whom they love. If, then, we love Jesus Christ much, behold, we are now in His presence. Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament sees us and hears us; shall we, then, say nothing to Him? Let us console ourselves in His company; let us rejoice in His glory, and in the love which so many enamored souls bear Him in the most holy Sacrament. Let us desire that all should love Jesus in the holy Sacrament and consecrate their hearts to Him.
– St. Alphonsus Liguori
Abandon God’s Mysteries To God
Let weak and frail man come here in humble entreaty to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or to wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God’s mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man—Almighty God can do all things.
– St. Paul of the Cross
Finding Rest In His Real Presence
O Jesus, present in the Blessed Sacrament in our churches, You give us solace and refuge; You give us faith, hope, love, and hospitality. You build for us an inner retreat, an ardent repose. Help us to seek You and find You.
– Bl. Charles de Foucauld
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
– St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You.
– St. Augustine of Hippo
I throw myself at the foot of the Tabernacle like a dog at the foot of his Master.
– St. John Vianney
The Best Moments Of Life
The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth.
– Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
You may be sure that of all the moments in your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity.
– St. Alphonsus Liguori
If we really loved the good God, we would make it our joy and happiness to come and spend a few moments to adore Him, and ask Him for the grace of forgiveness; and we would regard those moments as the happiest of our lives.
– St. John Vianney
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This article is taken from a chapter in Manual for Eucharistic Adoration compiled by The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration which is available from TAN Books.
