243 Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"When the Sisters are exhausted, up to their eyes in work; when all seems to go awry, they spend an hour in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. This practice has never failed to bear fruit: they experience peace and strength."

244 Pope John Paul II,

"In beholding the Word made flesh, now sacramentally present in the Eucharist, the eyes of our bodies are united with the eyes of faith in gazing upon the presence "par excellence" of Emmanuel "God with us" until that day when the sacramental veil will be lifted in the Kingdom of heaven."

"If we are to experience the Eucharist as the "source and summit of all Christian life" (Lumen Gentium. 11), then we must celebrate it with faith, receive it with reverence, and allow it to transform our minds and hearts through the prayer of adoration. Only by deepening our Eucharist communion with the Lord through personal prayer can we discover what he asks of us in daily life. Only by drinking deeply from the source of life-giving water "welling up within us" (cf. Jn 4:14) can we grow in faith, hope and charity. The image of the Church in worship before the Blessed Sacrament reminds us of the need to enter into a dialogue with our Redeemer, to respond to his love and to love one another..."

245 Saint Elizabeth Seton

On the Blessed Sacrament
"How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound."

246 Saint John Vianney

"When Our Lord sees pure souls coming to visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament He smiles on them. They come with the simplicity that pleases Him so much."

"The interior life is like a sea of love in which the soul is plunged and is, as it were, drowned in love."

247 Saint Pius X

"The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist."

248 Saint Catherine of Siena

"You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love."

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