12 Quotes from the Saints on the Holy Eucharist

Today, in the Western lung of the Catholic Church, we celebrate the great Solemnity of Corpus Christi – the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. We commemorate the great sacrament of the Holy Eucharist which Jesus Christ gave us the night before he died during the Last Supper with the Apostles. The Holy Eucharist is the Sacrament of all sacraments!

Quoting from Lumen Gentium 11, the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324 states,

“The Eucharist is ‘the source and summit of the Christian life.’ ‘The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are orientated toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.’”

Knowing the importance, the Saints have played in the life of the Catholic Church throughout the centuries, it has always been a goal of my writings to provide my readers with the lives and words of the saints. I have written close to 180 blog posts over the years on the Saints of the Church. My family has a devotion to many of them. We invoke their intercession daily in our evening prayers. 

Please share these quotes on the Eucharist from the Saints with your family and friends. As Catholics, we must never be ashamed to be CATHOLIC. Tell the world how much we love Jesus Christ and how much we love, adore, and defend the Holy Eucharist. I would encourage you to sign-up for Eucharistic Adoration if your parish has it. If your parish does not have it, encourage your Pastor to begin Eucharistic Adoration.

1.     “The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man.” – Saint Maria Goretti

2.     “In an ever-changing world the Holy Eucharist is a constant reminder of the great reality of God’s changeless love.” – Saint Teresa of Avila 

3.     “Holy Communion is the most efficacious means of uniting one’s self to God.” – Saint Paul of the Cross  

4.     “The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.” – Saint John Chrysostom

5.     “This is the bread of everlasting life which supports the substance of our souls.” – Saint Ambrose

6.     “The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself.” – Saint Peter Julian Eymard

7.     “There are two things the devil is deadly afraid of: fervent Communions and frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament.” – Saint John Bosco  

8.     “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.” – Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

9.     “The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives me strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world.” – Pope Saint John Paul II

10.  “He does not come down from Heaven each day to stay in the gold chalice. He comes down to find another Heaven He cherishes infinitely more than the first, the Heaven of our souls, made in His image, living temples of the Most Blessed Trinity.” – Saint Therese of Lisieux

11.  “Every consecrated host is made to burn itself up with love in a human heart.” – Saint John Vianney

12.  “If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion.” – Saint Maximillian Kolbe