"Each time you approach the Blessed Sacrament, remember that Jesus has been waiting for you for twenty centuries for this personal visit from you.”   ─ St. Josemaria Escriva

“You wanted to stay with us, and so You left us yourself in the Sacrament of the Altar, and You opened wide Your mercy to us. You opened an inexhaustible spring of mercy for us, giving us Your dearest possession, the Blood and Water that gushed forth from Your heart.”   ─ St. Faustina

“I have no taste for the food that perishes nor for the pleasures of this life. I want the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Christ, who was the seed of David; and for drink I desire His Blood which is love that cannot be destroyed.”   ─ St. Ignatius of Antioch

“What more could You have given me than the gift of Your very Self.”   ─ St. Catherine of Siena

“The Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead.”   ─ St. Ignatius of Antioch

“All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison for it is but the sacrifice of man to God; but the Mass is the sacrifice of God for man.”  ─ St. John Vianney

"Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of love.”   ─ Pope St. John Paul II

"Go, then, to Communion. My children, go to Jesus with love and confidence. Go, to live by Him in order to live for Him. Do not say that you have too much to do.”   ─ St. John Vianney

“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."

─ St. Augustine

“Every member of the Church must be vigilant in seeing that the Sacrament of Love shall be at the center of the life of the people of God so that through all the manifestations of worship due Him shall be given back ‘love for love’ and truly become the life of our souls.”   ─ Pope St. John Paul II

“The Word again becomes flesh and dwells among us, veiled under the Species of the Sacred Host, where the same Jesus born two thousand years ago as a little babe in Bethlehem is truly, really, bodily, and personally present to us in this Most Blessed Sacrament.”

─ St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“The Holy Eucharist is the continuation of Christ’s incarnation on earth. The mystery of the Eucharist gives us the joy of having Christmas every day. When we come to the Blessed Sacrament we come to Bethlehem, a name which means house of bread.” ─ St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Jesus and ready to make reparation for the great evils of the world. Let your adoration never cease.”   ─ Pope St. John Paul II

“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. Angela of Foligno

“It is not man that causes the things offered to become the Body and Blood of Christ, but he who was crucified for us, Christ himself. The priest, in the role of Christ, pronounces these words, but their power and grace are God’s. This is my body, he says. This word transforms the things offered.”   ─ St. John Chrysostom

“Christ is reserved in our churches as the spiritual center of the heart of the community, the universal Church, and all humanity, since within the veil of the species, Christ is contained, the invisible heart of the Church, the Redeemer of the world, the center of all hearts, by Him all things are and of Whom we exist.”   ─ Pope St. Paul VI Mysterium Fidei

“That Bread which you see on the altar, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the Body of Christ. The chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the Blood of Christ.”   ─ St. Augustine

“And this is done by Divine power in this sacrament; for the whole substance of the bread is changed into the whole substance of Christ’s body, and the whole substance of the wine into the whole substance of Christ’s blood."  ─ St. Thomas Aquinas

"Let the whole world tremble, and let the Heavens exult, when Christ, the Son of the Living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest!"  ─ St. Francis of Assisi

“The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, ‘Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health’”   ─ St. Bernadette Soubirous

“Ah! if we only had the angels' eyes! Seeing our Lord Jesus Christ here, on that altar, and looking at us, how we should love him! We should want to stay always at his feet; it would be a foretaste of heaven; everything else would become insipid to us.”   ─ St. John Vianney

“O Wonderful Loftiness and Stupendous Dignity! O Sublime Humility! O Humble Sublimity! The Lord of the Universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under an ordinary piece of bread!”   ─ St. Francis of Assisi

“If souls but understood the Treasure they possess in the Divine Eucharist…the churches would overflow with adorers no less by night than by day.”   ─ Bl. Dina Belanger