Communion Quotes

• ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

  Francis of Assisi

  Eye, Son, Holy Eucharist

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Angel, Sanctuary

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• I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Religious, Reading, Wine

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• Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Jesus, Night

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Scripture, Causes

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2012

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• I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Important, Important Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

  John Ralston Saul

  Culture, Bigs, Macs

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

  Roger Mahony

  Decision, Grace, Engagement

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• His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

  J. I. Packer

  Purpose, Conscious, Draws

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Bread of the world, in mercy broken,
  Wine of the soul, in mercy shed,
  By whom the words of life were spoken,
  And in whose death our sins are dead:
  Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
  Look on the tears by sinners shed;
  And be Thy feast to us the token
  That by Thy grace our souls are fed.

  Reginald Heber

  Heart, Wine, Broken

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Monday, Sunday, World

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Dawn, Foolish

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.20, Discovery House

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• How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Holy Eucharist, Shoes, Giving

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• If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Years, Holy Eucharist

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• When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Work

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• 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.

  Angela of Foligno

  Gratitude, Heart, Fire Of Love

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• Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Oasis

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Giving, Sick

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Religious, Men, Differences

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.115

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• Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don't know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Heart, Angel

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• There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.

  Lawrence Giustiniani

  Christian, Prayer, Good Work

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• In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Blood, Flow

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• I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Dream, Reality, Law

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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