NEWSLETTER INSERTS – FOR THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI

‘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. Alphonsus Liguori

‘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. Maximilian Kolbe

‘To serve means to become Eucharist for others, to identify ourselves with them, to share their joys and sorrows, to learn to think with their heads, to feel with their hearts’.

Cardinal Francis-Xavier Van Thuan.

‘The mystery of the Trinity invites us into full participation with God, a flow, a relationship, a waterwheel always outpouring love. Trinity basically says that God is a verb much more than a noun. Some Christians mystics taught that all of creation is being taken back into this flow of eternal life, almost as if we are a ‘fourth person’ of the eternal flow of God or, as Jesus puts it, ‘where I am you also maybe be’.

Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance

‘To adore me is to demonstrate that all your hope is in me. To adore me is to show me that you count not on yourself nor on others but on me alone. To adore me is to give me the freedom to act within you and upon you in such as away as to unite you wholly to myself, as you have asked me to; my heart to your heart, my soul to your soul, my body to your body, my blood to your blood’.

In Sine Jesu

‘It seems to me that nothing expresses the love in God’s heart more than the Eucharist; it is union, consummation, he is in us, we in him and isn’t that heaven on earth?’

St Elizabeth of the Trinity, Letter 165.

‘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 Teresa of Calcutta

‘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 Augustine

‘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 of Assisi