Back to Top Albert The Great, St. (1200 to 1280) Doctor of the Church, Confessor, and Bishop of Regensburg
On the importance of the Eucharist St. Albert wrote: "He could not have
commanded anything more beneficial, for this Sacrament is the fruit of the
tree of life. Anyone who receives this Sacrament with the devotion of
sincere faith will never taste death. It is a tree of life for those who
grasp it, and blessed is he who holds it fast. The man who feeds on Me shall
live on account of Me."
"Shake off all earthly things, counting them useless, noxious, and
hurtful to thee. When thou hast done this, enter wholly within thyself, and
fix thy gaze upon thy wounded Jesus, and upon Him alone. Strive with all thy
powers, unwearyingly, to reach God through Himself, that is, through God
made Man, that thou mayest attain to the knowledge of His Divinity through
the wounds of His Sacred Humanity."
"As far as thou canst, fix the eye of thy soul steadfastly, with
unobscured gaze, upon the uncreated light. Then will thy soul, purified from
the clouds of earth, be like an angel in a human body, no longer troubled by
the flesh, or disturbed by vain thoughts."
(Source: "On Union With God" Chapters II & VIII by St. Albertus Magnus; first quote from I Thirst For Your Love blog - https://mseagrif.wordpress.com/)
Anthony Of Padua, St., O.F.M. (1195 to 1231) Doctor of the Church and Franciscan Priest
"Upon the Altar there takes place the transubstantiation of bread and wine into the Body and Blood
of Jesus Christ. That Body which the Virgin begot, which hung upon the Cross
and was placed in the sepulchre, which rose again the third day, and
ascended to the right hand of the Father, this Body the Church today and
everyday presents and distributes to her faithful. When the priest speaks
the words: This is My Body, the essence of the bread is changed into the
Body of Christ."
Back to Top Bonaventure, St. (1218 to 1274) Doctor of the Church, Cardinal, and Bishop of Albano Italy
"Jesus, 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."
Back to Top Clare Of Assisi, St. (1194 to 1253) Founder of the Order Of Poor Ladies (Poor Clare Nuns)
"Gaze upon Him (in Eucharistic Adoration), consider Him, contemplate Him, as
you desire to imitate Him."
"Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place
your soul in the brilliance of glory! Place your heart in the figure of the
divine substance! And transform your entire being into the image of the
Godhead Itself through contemplation. So that you too may feel what His
friends feel as they taste the hidden sweetness that God Himself has
reserved from the beginning for those who love Him."
(Source: St. Clare's third letter to Agnes of Prague around 1234)
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Back to Top Diana degli Andalo, Bl. (1201 to 1236) Italian Dominican Nun
"We have begun our Lenten observance with
great fervor and joy, for we have the privilege of having the most holy
Sacrament exposed in our chapel every day from morning until evening. We
spend many hours in adoration and contemplation of this great mystery of
love."
(Source: 'To Heaven with Diana: A Study of Jordan of Saxony and Diana d?Andalo with a Translation of the Letters of Jordan to Diana" by Gerald Vann, O.P., 1957, p. 87, Longmans, Green and Co., London (According to Bing AI) )
Dominic, St. (1170 to 1221) Founder of the Dominican Order
As with most Saints St. Dominic had a great love for the Blessed Sacrament and would pass the
night in Eucharistic Adoration after the difficult labours of the day.
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Back to Top Elizabeth Of Hungary, St. (1207 to 1231) Princess of Hungary
Many saints would spend hours in Eucharistic
adoration as they knew how important it is in one's spiritual life. St.
Elizabeth, even in her childhood, would often visit our beloved Lord Jesus
in the Eucharist.
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Back to Top Ferdinand III of Castile, St. (1199 to 1252) King of Castile and Leon, Confessor, and Franciscan Tertiary
King St. Ferdinand III was a devout ruler who regularly spent his nights in long, silent vigils of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. He ensured that even during military campaigns, his battle tent was constructed like a cathedral, centering every day around the reverent offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. After receiving Holy Communion, he would close his eyes in deep meditation, saying to his mother: "I know well, Mother, that I have Jesus Christ inside of me, and I close my eyes to talk to Him better. I tell Him that He is my King and I am his knight, that I want to suffer great labors for Him... and that His Glorious Mother is my Lady." On his deathbed in 1252, when the Holy Eucharist was brought to him as Viaticum, the dying king rose from his bed and prostrated himself on the bare floor with a cord around his neck in deep humility, begging that all royal symbols and crowns be removed from his presence so he could die as a humble servant of his Eucharistic King.
(Source: Combined and summarized from his early Spanish hagiographical records and his papal canonization acts by Pope Clement X in 1671)
Francis Of Assisi, St. (1181 to 1226) Founder of the Franciscans, started Eucharistic Adoration in Italy
"I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence for the
Eucharist through whom all things have been brought to peace and reconciled
with Almighty God."
One day a rather worldly friend asked St.
Francis: "Father what do you do during those long hours before the Blessed
Sacrament?" "My son in return I ask you what does the poor man do at the
rich man's door, the sick man in presence of his physician, the thirsty man
at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I
adore. I love."
"Let us love God and adore him and offer him praises
by day and by night."
"In this world I cannot see the Most High Son
of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood."
(Source: "The Writings of St Francis of Assisi" book; worldly friend quote from The Work Of God website - https://www.theworkofgod.org; praise quote from Franciscans of the Eucharist of Chicago website - https://www.franciscansoftheeucharistofchicago.com; entire order quote from St. Francis's Letter to the Entire Order around 1220)
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Back to Top Honorius III, Pope (1216 to 1257) First Pope to give permission for continuous lay Adoration
It is said that continuous lay adoration of the Blessed Sacrament began in France in 1226 in
thanksgiving for victory over the Albigensians. Pope Honorius III was the
first Pope to give permission for this day and night adoration which lasted
until the French Revolution in 1792. It was restarted in 1829 and has been
going ever since.
Hyacinth of Poland, St. (1185 to 1257) Dominican Priest and Missionary, called the Apostle of the North
In Christian art, St. Hyacinth is almost always depicted holding a monstrance or ciborium in one hand and a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the other, commemorating his most famous miracle. During the 1240 Mongol siege of Kiev, as the city and the monastery chapel were being burned, he rushed to rescue the Blessed Sacrament from desecration. As he finished Mass and took the ciborium to flee, he passed a heavy alabaster statue of Mary and heard a voice say: "Hyacinth, My son, why do you leave Me behind? Take Me with you..." Although the statue was far too heavy for him to lift, it became as light as a reed in his arms. He carried both the Blessed Sacrament and the statue to safety, walking dry-shod across the surface of the Dnieper River to escape the invaders.
(Source: Summarized from the historical canonization acts of Pope Clement VIII, April 17, 1594, and Dominican monastic tradition as documented by Dominican Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary)
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Back to Top Juliana Of Liege, St. (1193 to 1258) Augustinian Nun who is original source for Corpus Christi Feast
From her youth, Juliana had a special devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and she
longed for a special feast in its honor. She received a vision in a dream,
and later it was revealed to her that it represented a missing feast in the
Church, which became the feast of Corpus Christi.
Jesus speaking to St. Juliana - "The first reason why I am asking for this
special Feast Day (now known as Corpus Christi), is so that the faith in
this Sacrament would be confirmed by this Feast, when bad people would
attack this mystery in the future. The second reason is so that the faithful
would be strengthened on their way to virtue by a very great love and
adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and the third reason is so that because
of this Feast and the loving attention given to it, reparation would be made
for the insults and lack of respect shown to the Blessed Sacrament."
Back to Top Louis King Of France, St. (1214 to 1270) King of France
Are we too busy to commit to covering an hour of adoration a week? We should
take the example of the saints, such as St. Louis, who, despite being King
found time to visit the most Blessed Sacrament every day.
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Back to Top Margaret of Cortona, St. (1247 to 1297) Lay Franciscan and Penitent, called the Second Mary Magdalene
Margaret had a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Before 6am she
went to the church of St. Francis where she spent 2-3 hours in prayer and
contemplation, preparing to receive Her Lord and King. After Communion she
would remain for a long time, in a sort of ecstasy, contemplating, adoring
and loving Him.
Margaret of Hungary, St. (1242 to 1270) Dominican Princess and Mystic
St. Margaret possessed an intense devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, frequently weeping and entering ecstasies during Mass and Holy Communion. She preferred to pray before the altar of the Holy Cross because the Blessed Sacrament was suspended there in a pyx. The convent sacristan recorded that Margaret would regularly coax her to leave the door of the choir open after Compline so she could spend the entire night in silent adoration before the Blessed Sacrament instead of sleeping. When pressured by her royal father to marry King Ottokar II of Bohemia for a political alliance, she adamantly refused, declaring: "I esteem infinitely more the King of Heaven and the inconceivable happiness of possessing Jesus Christ than the crown offered me by the King of Bohemia."
(Source: Summarized from the contemporary hagiographical "Inquisition of 1276" for her canonization process and her spiritual guide Prior Marcellus's accounts)
Mary of Oignies, Bl. (1177 to 1213) Beguine Mystic and Leader of the 13th-Century Eucharistic Movement
Blessed Mary is credited with helping to spark the great 13th-century Eucharistic revival in the Low Countries. She had an intense hunger for the Eucharist, sometimes subsisting for weeks on nothing but Holy Communion. She made frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament in church and actively urged others to do the same when they were troubled. Her biographer, Cardinal Jacques de Vitry, recorded: "This is the only comfort she could not endure being without. To receive Christ’s body was the same with her as to live." During her long periods of ecstasy, she would say nothing for days except: "Give me the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ."
(Source: Summarized and quoted from "The Life of Marie of Oignies" / "Vita Mariae Ogniacensis" written shortly after her death in 1213 by her contemporary and spiritual director Cardinal Jacques de Vitry)
Mechtilde of Hackeborn, St. (1241 to 1298) Benedictine Nun and 13th Century Mystic of Helfta
St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn had an extraordinary devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. She perceived Jesus' Heart as a mother's breast and wrote that the Blood of Christ in the Eucharist is as nourishing to the soul as a mother's milk is to her child.
In one of her visions, Jesus appeared to her and commanded her to love Him ardently and to honor His Sacred Heart in the Blessed Sacrament as much as possible. He gave her His Sacred Heart as a pledge of His love, as a place of refuge during her life, and as her consolation at the hour of her death.
(Source: Combined and summarized from Pope Benedict XVI's General Audience on St. Matilda of Hackeborn, September 29, 2010, and her book of revelations, "Book of Special Grace" / "Liber Specialis Gratiae", Book I, Chapter 45)
Mechtilde of Magdeburg, St. (c. 1207 to 1282/1294) German Beguine, Mystic, and Nun of Helfta
A contemporary of St. Gertrude the Great and St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn at the famous monastery of Helfta, Mechtilde was one of the earliest promoters of devotion to the Sacred Heart, which she experienced as intimately united with the Blessed Sacrament. She reported a vision where Jesus appeared to her and commanded her to love Him ardently and to honor His Sacred Heart in the Blessed Sacrament. She wrote beautifully about her mystical experiences during Eucharistic adoration and receiving Holy Communion.
"Yet I, least of all souls, take Him in my hand, eat Him and drink Him, and do with Him what I will! Why then should I trouble myself as to what the angels experience?"
(Source: Her mystical treatise "The Flowing Light of the Godhead", and historical records of the Convent of Helfta)
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Back to Top Philip Benizi de Damiani, St. (1233 to 1285) General Superior of the Order of the Servites
"Let us often visit our Lord in this most holy sacrament and let us adore
Him with all reverence and devotion. Let us offer Him our prayers, our
praises, our thanksgivings, our petitions, our reparations, our sacrifices,
our vows, our resolutions, our hearts, and our souls. Let us unite ourselves
to Him by faith, by hope, by charity, by contrition, by communion, by
imitation, by conformity, and by union. Let us draw from Him all the graces
that we need for ourselves and for others and let us implore His mercy for
the whole world. Let us never depart from His presence without His blessing,
and let us always carry Him in our hearts, as our most precious treasure,
our most sweet consolation, our most perfect joy, and our supreme good."
(Source: St. Philip Benizi de Damiani's 1278 treatise titled "Seven Excellences of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar", Seventh Chapter (transl. by Bing AI 2023) )
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Back to Top Richard of Chichester, St. (1197 to 1253) Bishop of Chichester and Chancellor of Oxford
St. Richard was renowned for his deep devotion to the Eucharist and his tireless care for the poor. His famous deathbed prayer is widely used in Eucharistic Adoration and personal devotions to express a longing for closer union with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
"Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits thou hast given me, for all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me. O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother, may I know thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, and follow thee more nearly, day by day."
(Source: Historically recorded as St. Richard's final dying prayer, documented by his contemporary biographer Ralph Bocking, O.P.)
Richard Poore Of Salisbury, Bishop (1217 to 1229) Bishop of the See of Salisbury England
Bishop Richard Poore urged and promoted adoration of the
Most Blessed Sacrament. In writing a thirteenth century rule for the life of
nuns (called the "Nuns Rule" or "Ancren Riwle") he wrote: "When you are quite
dressed...think upon God's Flesh and on His Blood which is over the high altar and fall
on your knees towards it with this salutation 'Hail thou author of our Creation'..."
Robert of Thourotte, Bishop (? to 1246) Bishop of Liege, Belgium
Bishop Robert, in 1246, was the first to
approve the idea of Corpus Christi. St. Juliana Of Liege in his diocese had
a series of dreams about a missing feast in the Church calendar dedicated to
honoring the Blessed Sacrament. She presented it to the Bishop and, after some initial
hesitation, approved it for his whole diocese just before he died in 1246.
The Archdeacon of Liege at that time, Jacques Pantal?on, had been a strong
supporter of this idea. When Jacques became Pope Urban IV (1261 -
1264) he issued a Papal Bull, in 1264, instructing that the feast day be
celebrated annually throughout the world. However, Pope Urban IV died
before his Corpus Christi Bull could be implemented. Pope John XXII
(1316 - 1334) eventually was the Pope who added Corpus Christi to the Church calendar
in 1317.
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Back to Top Sylvester Gozzolini, St. (1177 to 1267) Italian Priest and founder of the Sylvestrines
"Let us visit the Blessed Sacrament often and adore him who is truly present there. Let us thank him
for his mercy and implore his grace. Let us unite ourselves to him in spirit
and in truth, and let us offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to him. He is
our life, our hope, our joy, and our all. Let us love him with all our
heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength."
(Source: "Vita et Miracula Beati Silvestri Abbatis Congregationis Silvestrinorum" book by Abbot Andrew de Giacomo, 1598, Chapter 10 (Transl. by Bing AI 2023) )
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Back to Top Thomas Aquinas, St. (1225 to 1274) Doctor of the Church, Theologian, and Philosopher
It is said that we will be remembered by the company we keep. St. Thomas
recognized this when he said, "The things we love tell us who we are." Are
we too busy to commit to a special specific hour each week with Jesus, who
has done everything for us? One thing is for sure - if we faithfully attend
Eucharistic Adoration Jesus will recognize and remember us as one of his
faithful disciples at our death.
St. Thomas used to spend many hours in adoration before our beloved Lord. He once said that he learned more from
prayer before the Blessed Sacrament than from many hours of study.
"No other sacrament (except the Holy Eucharist) has greater healing power;
through it sins are purged away, virtues are increased, and the soul is
enriched with an abundance of every spiritual gift."
"Since this (the Eucharist) is the sacrament of Our Lord's Passion, it
contains in itself the Jesus Christ who suffered for us. Thus, whatever is
an effect of Our Lord's Passion is also an effect of this sacrament. For
this sacrament is nothing other than the application of Our Lord's Passion
to us."
Back to Top Urban IV, Pope (1261 to 1264) He instituted the Feast of Corpus Christi
"In the Eucharist Christ is with us in His own
substance. For when telling the Apostles that He was ascending into heaven,
He said, 'Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the
world,' thus comforting them with the gracious promise that He would remain
and be with them even by His bodily presence."
(Source: Pope Urban IV 1264 Papal Bull "Transiturus de hoc mundo" officially recognizing the feast of Corpus Christi)
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Back to Top Zita of Lucca, St. (1212 to 1272) Domestic Servant and Patron Saint of Housekeepers
St. Zita spent her life as a humble domestic servant, rising several hours before the rest of her household each morning to spend time in contemplative prayer and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament in church. Throughout her life, she found her ultimate strength in daily Mass and Holy Communion, which frequently moved her to tears. One morning, she became so completely absorbed in her prayer and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament that she remained in church past the hour she was supposed to bake the bread for the household. Hurrying home in deep self-reproach, she entered the kitchen to find that angels had descended and baked a perfect, fragrant batch of bread in her place while she was in adoration.
(Source: Preserved in the 13th-century hagiographical "Life of St. Zita" / "Vita di Santa Zita" and her papal canonization acts by Pope Innocent XII in 1696)
"Adore Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, the source of eternal life." Pope Leo XIV
"Each time we adore Christ in the Eucharist, our hearts will be united in him." Pope Leo XIV
"The Christian life needs to be nourished..., above all, by the cultivation of a
personal relationship with the Lord in Eucharistic adoration." Pope Francis
"God is waiting for us in Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Let us not leave
him waiting in vain! Let us not, through distraction and lethargy, pass by the
greatest and most important thing life offers us." Pope Benedict XVI
"Help us, Jesus, to understand that in order "to do" in your Church we must
first learn "to be", that is, to stay with you, in your sweet company, in
adoration." St. Pope John Paul II
"God deserves too much from us for us to be able to throw to him a few crumbs
of our time and our heart. It would not be wise to give so much of ourselves to
(wordly) things and little of ourselves to Jesus." Bl. Pope John Paul I
"Being such a powerhouse of grace, Perpetual Adoration extends its influence far
beyond the individual adorers, touching their homes and families and reaching out
to the parish community and beyond." St. Pope Paul VI
"There are even some who (falsely) look upon a Holy Hour of adoration as of minor
importance. There is no doubt that a flood of graces will descend upon your family
and the world if more souls would become docile pupils of adoration." St. Pope John XXIII
"Those who, especially in the silent hours of the night, gather together in
(eucharisitc) adoration, draw abundantly for themselves and for all the Church
waters from the fountains of the Savior." Ven. Pope Pius XII
"(Jesus asked) that men...make expiatory supplications and prayers, prolonged for a
whole hour, which is rightly called a Holy Hour. These pious exercises have been
approved by the Church and enriched with copious indulgences." Pope Pius XI
"You must propagate veneration of the Most Blessed Sacrament with all your might,
for the devotion to the Holy Eucharist is the queen of all devotions." Pope Benedict XV
"The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the
fountainhead of all devotional works." St. Pope Pius X
"Undertakings must be revived (such as) intercessory prayers before the blessed
Sacrament exposed for the veneration of the faithful (and) devout visits to God's
tabernacle." Pope Leo XIII
"The single greatest need in the world today is the practice of prayer before the
Blessed Sacrament...there is no greater profession of faith (or more) powerful
means on earth for the conversion of America." S.D. Fr. John Hardon
"Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in
Heaven and retold for all eternity." St. Teresa of Calcutta
"A Holy Hour is not a devotion; it is a sharing in the work of redemption." Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen
"A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent in sweetly
communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament." St. Padre Pio
"A Holy Hour before the Most Blessed Sacrament so pleases the Heart of Jesus, that
every man, woman and child on earth receives a new effect from God's goodness and
love, all because of a single hour of adoration in His Presence." St. Faustina Kowalska
Through Holy Hours of prayer a multitude of souls go to Heaven who otherwise would
have gone to hell as one person can make up for what is lacking in the lives of
others by winning graces for their salvation. Bl. Dina Belanger
"There are two things the devil is deadly afraid of: fervent Communions and frequent
visits to the Blessed Sacrament." St. John Bosco
"I am fully convinced that if it were humanly possible to fully understand the value
of a Holy Hour everyone would make time to do it." St. Peter Julian Eymard
"Have a Holy Hour every week. Start praying. Pray for guidance and trust in God." St. John Vianney
"You may be sure that of all the moments of 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 Ligouri
"My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as
it were, in Its center." St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
"A partial indulgence is granted for the faithful, who visit the Most Blessed
Sacrament to adore it; a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions) is granted
if the visit lasts for at least one half an hour." The Handbook of Indulgences
"If we get in front of the sun, we get sun tans... But when we get in front of Jesus
in the Eucharist, we become Saints." Bl. Carlos Acutis
"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. Joseph Escriva
"The Eucharistic visit for the apostle is like an audience, or a school, where the
disciple engages in conversation with the Divine Master...The visit has the scope
of establishing our lives in Jesus Christ." Bl. James Alberione
"Like the sick who expose their diseased bodies to the healing rays of the sun,
expose miseries, no matter what they are, to the beams of light streaming forth
from the Sacred Host." Fr. Jose Guadalupe Trevino
"My aim is to institute Perpetual (Eucharistic) Adoration, for this is the most
important activity." St. Maximillian Kolbe
"We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the
monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in respect to neglect the divine Guest
who awaits us? He dwells there, really present." Bl. Columba Marmion
"The goal of every human life should be the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament." St. Charles de Foucauld
"The Holy Eucharist visited us daily becomes our heaven...Jesus awaits your
adoration in the Eucharist." St. Luigi Guanella
"Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love.
I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Savior listens to
me night and day." St. Therese of Lisieux
"The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must
preserve in the depths of our hearts a constant and uninterrupted, profound
adoration of this precious pledge of Divine Love." St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
"How happy I was, alone in the presence of our good Saviour! Oh, what joy one tastes,
and what illumination one receives at the feet of the Eternal; above all, in the
silence of night." S.D. Marie-Eustelle Harpain
"Visit the Blessed Sacrament often; there is your true life...Be special adorers of
the Divine and Blessed Sacrament of the Altar." St. Paul Of The Cross
"Do not fail to adore the Most Holy Eucharist, which is the principal and the
greatest devotion, and the one that all Catholics ought to have...Perform your
adoration, therefore, with care and fidelity." S.D. Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament
"I often speak with my teacher, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, because I learn from
Him. Jesus is the teacher of the science of holiness. I go to Him because I would
like to learn from Him how to become a Saint." St. Francis de Sales
"In this world it is impossible for all subjects to speak with their king. But
everyone who wishes can find Jesus, the King of Heaven, in the Blessed Sacrament,
and may speak with Him without restraint." St. Teresa Of Avila
St. Thomas Aquinas use to spend many hours in adoration before our beloved Lord. He
once said that he learned more from prayer before the Blessed Sacrament than from
many hours of study. St. Thomas Aquinas
"Gaze upon Him (in Eucharistic Adoration), consider Him, contemplate Him, as you
desire to imitate Him." St. Clare of Assisi
"I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence for the Eucharist through whom
all things have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God." St. Francis of Assisi
"What excuse shall we have, or how shall we obtain pardon, if we consider it too
much to go to Jesus in the Eucharist, who descended from Heaven for our sake?" St. John Chrysostom