St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811 to 1868)
Quotes On The Importance Of Eucharistic Adoration
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"Eucharistic adorers share Mary's life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions, and it holds no perils. It is the most holy, for in it all the virtues are practiced."
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, Month of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, “Mary of the Blessed Sacrament,” Sentinel Press, New York, 1903, ¶4–5.)
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"The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from it. She lived in it and by it. She passed her days and her nights at the feet of her divine Son."
(Eymard, Month of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, “Mary of the Blessed Sacrament,” ¶5–8.)
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"The object of Eucharistic adoration is the divine person of our Lord Jesus Christ present in the most Blessed Sacrament. He is living there. He wants us to speak to him, and he will speak to us. Anybody may speak to our Lord. Is he not there for everybody? Does he not tell us, 'Come you all to me'?"
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Object of Eucharistic Adoration,” in The Eymard Library, Vol. 1, Emmanuel Publications, 1938, ¶1–4.)
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"Adore Jesus in the Divine Host by offering the sovereign homage of your mind to him who is its sovereign truth, of your heart to him who is its God, of your will to him who is its Lord."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Object of Eucharistic Adoration,” ¶1–4.)
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"The grace of Adoration is given to everybody. In order, however, to succeed in it and avoid routine or dryness of mind and heart, adorers must seek inspiration in the grace of their vocation, in the various mysteries of the life of our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin, or in the virtues of the saints."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Grace of Adoration,” ¶2–5.)
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"When your hour is particularly difficult for its suffering more. It is a privileged hour that will count for two."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “Difficult Hours of Adoration,” ¶3–6.)
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"Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Triumph of Love,” ¶1–3.)
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"Go to the good Lord very simply, with the surrender of a small child. Tell the good Lord what you are thinking, what you want, what is upsetting you. Oh! How happy we become when we discover this interior conversation with our Lord. We carry our treasure everywhere. He becomes the center of our heart and life."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Triumph of Love,” ¶1–3.)
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"Look upon the hour of adoration assigned to you as an hour in paradise. Go to your adoration as one would to heaven, to the divine banquet. You will then long for that hour and hail it with joy..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Happiness of the Adorer,” ¶4–7.)
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"Jesus Christ has a right to honor; He demands it. He is our King, our Savior. We must honor Him before we honor anybody else; we must offer Him the supreme worship of adoration; we must honor Him publicly; for we are His people."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Rights of Jesus Christ,” ¶1–4.)
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"The Church shows to everyone her Bridegroom in the radiant monstrance... Her friends are in adoration and her enemies tremble..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Rights of Jesus Christ,” ¶1–4.)
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"Behold the Lamb of God, Behold God Himself! Adore Him!"
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Rights of Jesus Christ,” ¶1–4.)
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"Adore and praise the immense love Jesus has for you in this sacrament of Himself..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Love of Jesus in the Eucharist,” ¶5–8.)
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"Adore and visit Jesus, abandoned and forsaken by men in His Sacrament of Love. Man has time for everything except for visits to His Lord and God..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Love of Jesus in the Eucharist,” ¶5–8.)
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"Our Lord is always on His altar. He is there before the first visitor..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,” ¶6–10.)
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"Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,” ¶6–10.)
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"How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,” ¶6–10.)
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"Society will again someday become Christian won to Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Apostolate of Eucharistic Prayer,” ¶6–7.)
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"Today more than ever have we need of men who, by their self-immolation, disarm the anger of God..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Need for Reparation,” ¶8–10.)
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"Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament..."
(Eymard, The Real Presence, “The Eucharistic Meditation,” ¶2–4.)
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"Among the graces which Jesus gave to His foster-father is that special to an adorer of the Blessed Sacrament..."
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, St. Joseph: Perpetual Adorer, “St. Joseph, Model of Adorers,” ¶2–4.)
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"Because his faith was so strong, Joseph's mind and heart bowed in perfect adoration..."
(Eymard, St. Joseph: Perpetual Adorer, Eymard League, 1947, ¶2–4.)
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"To adore well we must, above all, talk to the Lord; He will answer us. Everybody can talk to our Lord..."
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, In the Light of the Monstrance, “The Eucharistic Meditation,” Eymard League, 1948, ¶2–4.)
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"The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the Church Militant..."
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, A Eucharistic Handbook, “The End of the Church Militant,” Emmanuel Publications, 1949, ¶1–3.)
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"Eucharistic Adoration is the greatest act of holiness on earth."
(Eymard, A Eucharistic Handbook, “The Great Act of Holiness,” ¶2.)
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"Be a child full of love and openheartedness toward this good Master..."
(Eymard, A Eucharistic Handbook, “The Childlike Spirit Before Jesus,” ¶4–7.)
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"Mary spent days and nights in the presence of the Divine Eucharist..."
(Eymard, A Eucharistic Handbook, “Mary of the Blessed Sacrament,” ¶5–8.)
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"Nothing can compare with the ardor and power of a soul as it seeks its Beloved..."
(Eymard, A Eucharistic Handbook, “The Desire of the Eucharistic Soul,” ¶3–6.)
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"Eucharistic Adoration is the most necessary mission to the Church..."
(Eymard, A Eucharistic Handbook, “The Necessity of Eucharistic Adoration,” ¶3.)
- "Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist.
This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue."
((St. Peter Julian Eymard, A Forgotten Source of Blessings: Solemn Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, “The Fruits of Eucharistic Devotion,” Eymard League, ¶1–3.)
The following quotations are widely attributed to St. Peter Julian Eymard in various devotional and internet sources. Their original published sources have not been verified. Some may be paraphrases.
- "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."
- "The Divine King is ever ready to grant us an audience and to admit our souls to the
intimacy of his love."
- "The Blessed Virgin is eager to make Jesus in the Eucharist known to all
and to group them into a Eucharistic Guard of Honor, a court of
devoted adorers."
- "As we grow to know His voice better (in Adoration) and as our hearts
become more sympathetic to Him in emptying themselves of what is not
him, our Lord manifests Himself in a clearer and more intimate
manner...He gives the soul a divine conviction which overshadows the
light of human reason."
- "Come, let the kingdom of Jesus Christ be established in you! Public Exposition
of the Most Blessed Sacrament is God's last grace to man."
- "Will you remain cold and indifferent (in taking part in Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration)? No! If there are societies for the spreading
of evil, you will form a society for the spreading of good, a
society of adoration."
- "Like Moses, full of zeal
to announce the teaching of the Divine Master when he came down from
Mount Sinai, like the Apostles coming from the Cenacle, so should
the priests go from the church (in Eucharistic Adoration) straight
to the people to announce to them the Word of God."
- "The great evil of our
time is that people do not go to Jesus Christ as to their very
Saviour and God. They abandon the only foundation, the only law, the
only grace of salvation... What is to be done then? We must return
to the fountain of life, and not just to the historical Jesus nor to
the Jesus glorified in heaven, but rather to Jesus in the Eucharist.
It is necessary to bring him out from the shadows so that he can
once again take his place at the head of Christian society."
- "Going to the source, to Jesus, especially Jesus in
the Eucharist. That is the mission and glory of our
century, so it will be great among the greatest centuries, and saint
among the most holy. As it is well known, a century grows or
decreases because of his worship for the Holy Eucharist. This is
life and the extent of his faith, his love and virtue."
- "The less Jesus is adored in the Blessed
Sacrament, the more present and powerful Satan becomes."
- "If you have this Eucharistic spirit, if your thoughts are tuned continually
toward the Eucharist, the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament will
never leave you."
- "What need is there for me to see, to hear, to touch in
order to believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Sacred Host? Is not
His Divine Word guarantee enough?"
- "Eucharistic adoration is the greatest
of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored
the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on
Calvary, in the divine Eucharist."
- "Go to our Lord just as you are.
Be natural in your meditation. He wants the thought and prayer of that heart
as the genuine expression of its love for Him."
- "Is not our Lord as meek
and humble in the blessed sacrament as He was during his life on earth? Is
He not always the good shepherd, the divine consoler, the changeless friend?
Happy the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in
the Eucharist all things!"
- "Whoever gives serious thought to the
Eucharist, and especially whoever partakes of it, cannot help feeling that
our Lord loves him. He feels that in Him he has a Father. He feels that he
is loved as a child and that he has a right to come to his Father and speak
to Him. In church, at the foot of the tabernacle, he is in His Father's
home."
- "Jesus Christ, though annihilated and concealed under the
sacramental veils, is yet King of heaven and earth. His children,
therefore, should seek by their interior sacrifices and external honor to
restore to Him the homage He has sacrificed for our love, and continue upon
earth a service that corresponds as far as possible to the glorious
adoration of the saints and angels in heaven. Our Lord will be taken
from His tabernacle. He will be exposed. He will reign."