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NEWSLETTER INSERTS - ON THE EUCHARIST



'The Eucharist is my Highway to Heaven'


Blessed Carlo Acutis


'Not to go to Holy Communion is like someone dying of thirst beside a spring'


St John Vianney


'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 Ignatius Loyola


'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'.


St Francis de Sales


'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'.


Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati


‘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


‘Well, if the Eucharist is just a symbol, to hell with it!’


Flannery O’Connor


‘In our time, we tend to divide ourselves into three categories – those who believe in God (believers), those who don’t (atheists) and those who are not sure (agnostics). In contrast, the Bible divides people into two categories – those who believe in the true God and those who believe in false gods. According to the Scriptures, everyone believes. The real question is what God/gods do you believe in? Answering that question requires us to make a choice – the same choice put before the people in this Sunday’s First Reading from the Book of Joshua. Which God/god (s) do I choose? Do I choose the living God, the God of Jesus Christ and his Gospel? Or do I choose a lesser good, a false god and risk losing everything. On this choice does our whole future and life depend’.


Fr Billy Swan

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