Wisdom of the Saints on Eucharistic Adoration

I sat down to write a piece on the Holy Eucharist and how important it is to the Christian life. I decided to search the Internet for what the Saints had to say about the Eucharist first,since I trusted their wisdom to be far superior to my own. I came across a list of nearly 80 quotes from Saints on a single website. Another posting yielded at least half a dozen that were not on the first site. And a wonderful book I had read about 18 months ago yielded a quote that hasn’t left my mind since I first read it:  it has become an important reason why I have been asking our priest to offer more adoration in our parish, why I started going to adoration 4 times per week most weeks, and why I am writing this article. Since I read the book I have been passing it out to many friends and even priests. Jesus gave Venerable Consolata Betrone this remedy for the ills of our day: “Mankind’s humble adoration of God in the Holy Eucharist will be the weight that crushes satan’s head.” After reading the wisdom filled quotes of the Saints that I have reorganized and honed to a list of Fifty and then highlighted my favorite 15, I felt there was really nothing more I could add to what has already been said, except that my experience with Adoration has proved many of the quotes true, and  I too believe as many Saints have said, that Adoration brings blessings far beyond the personal ones that are felt by the individual. Many of my most cherished moments of my life have been during the hours I’ve spent with Jesus in Adoration. St Teresa of Calcutta and her nuns spent an hour in Adoration of the Eucharistic Lord at the start of each day and on days anticipated to be particularly difficult, 2 hours. Jesus has said to more than one Saint that time spent in Adoration is never wasted.”

I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I did. You can see almost 30 more that are just as amazing by following the link at the bottom of the article, though the original source is not formatted by Saint for those who have multiple quotes.

Fifty Wisdom-Filled Quotes from the Saints About Adoring the Eucharistic Lord

1.     “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)

2.     “The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us.” (St John Damascene)

3.     “A Holy Hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament is worth more than a thousand years of human glory.” (St. Padre Pio)

4.     “It is our duty to adore the Blessed Sacrament. No one receives the Blessed Sacrament unless he adores it…and not only do we not sin by adoring, we do sin by not adoring.” (St.                  Augustine)

5.     “I have a burning thirst to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament”. (Jesus speaking to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque)

6.     “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. Josemaria Escriva, founder of           Opus Dei)

7.     “Do you realize that Jesus is there in the Blessed Sacrament expressly for you, for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart!” (St. Therese of Lisieux)

8.     “Mankind’s humble adoration of God in the Holy Eucharistic will be the weigh that crushes the head of satan.” (Jesus to Venerable Sister Consolata Betrone)

9.     “The Eucharist is a Divine storehouse filled with every virtue.” (St. Francis of Assisi)

10.   “I ask everyone to intensify in … love and devotion to the Eucharistic Jesus. (Pope Benedict “ XVI)

11.   “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)

12.   "The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works.” (St. Pope Pius X)

13.   “Devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble, because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because it gives us the Author of Grace.“ (St. Pope Pius X)

14.   “A Holy Hour of adoration testifies to the fact that the Jesus who died on the cross, is present in the Eucharist, and reigns in Heaven, are identical.” (Pope Pius XII)

15.   “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 of God’s graces.” (St. Faustina)

St John Paul II:

16.  “The Eucharist contains the author of grace, Jesus Christ Himself.” (St. John Paul II)

17.  “The future belongs to those who worship God in silence.” (St. John Paul II)

18.  “By being faithful to a Holy Hour of Adoration you can teach by example. “The young should be taught the value of Eucharistic Adoration.” (St. John Paul II)

19.  “The love of God and neighbor, the greatest commandment, is expressed in and is the fruit of, Eucharistic worship.“ (St. John Paul II)

20.  “Jesus Himself is calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each Week.” (St. John Paul II)

21.  “We represent those in the world who do not know Jesus during our Holy Hour of Adoration.” (St. John Paul II)

22.  “A Holy Hour helps the one in the world in most need of God’s Mercy.” (St. John Paul II)

23.  “From the Eucharist comes the strength to live the Christian life with zeal and to share that life with others.” (St. John Paul II)

24.  “Our Holy Hours of Eucharistic Adoration makes us more sensitive to the needs of our fellow man.” (St. John Paul II)

25.  “We contribute to the radical transformation of the world during our Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration.” (St. John Paul II)

26.  “During our Holy Hour before the Most Blessed Sacrament of the altar we contribute to the sowing of the Gospel.” (St. John Paul II)

27.  “A Holy Hour before the Most Blessed Sacrament repairs for evils of the world.” (St. John Paul II)

28.  “Eucharistic Adoration is an invaluable conversation with Christ where we learn more deeply of the mysteries of His Divine and human life.” (St. John Paul II)

St. Peter Julian Eymard:

29.  “Eucharistic Adoration is the most necessary mission to the Church, which has even more need of prayerful souls than of powerful preachers or men of eloquence.” (St. Peter Julian               Eymard)

30.  “Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life, faith, charity, and virtue.” (St. Peter Julian               Eymard)

31.  “Society will again someday become Christian won to Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic Prayer.” (St. Peter Julian Eymard)

32.  “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!” (St. Peter Julian Eymard)

St. Teresa of Calcutta:

33.  “Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it is recorded in Heaven and retold for all eternity!” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

34.  “In order to convert America and save the World what we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Hours of prayer.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

35.  “A Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration helps to bring everlasting peace to earth.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

36.  “During a Holy Hour our love for Jesus becomes more intimate, our love for each other more understanding, and our love for the poor more compassionate.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

37.  “A Holy Hour of adoration before the Most Blessed Sacrament opens up the floodgates of God’s merciful Love upon the world.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

38.  “Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth!” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

39.  “Eucharistic Adoration will make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen:

40.  “The only time our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for activity did He plead but for an Hour of companionship.” (Venerable Fulton J. Sheen).

41.  “The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.” (Venerable Fulton J. Sheen)

42.  “Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him in Adoration.” (Venerable             Fulton J. Sheen)

Pope St Paul VI:

43.  “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)

44.  “A Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration is the best way to grow spiritually (outside of Mass).“ (St. Pope Paul VI)

45.  “The worship paid to the Eucharist strongly impels the soul to cultivate a “social” love, by which the common good is given preference over the good of the individual.” (St. Pope Paul VI)

46.  “Our Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration acknowledges Christ as the spiritual center of our community.” (St. Pope Paul VI)

St. Alphonsus Ligouri:

47.  “Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Eucharist will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.” (St. Alphonsus               Ligouri)

48.  “Even a quarter of an hour’s prayer in front of the Eucharist perhaps gains more graces than all the other spiritual exercises of the day (outside of Mass).” (St. Alphonsus Ligouri)

St. John Bosco:

49.  “Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians and you will see what miracles are.” (St. John Bosco)
50.  “Do you want the Lord to give you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to give you few graces? Visit Him rarely. Do you want the devil to attack you? Visit Jesus rarely in the         Blessed Sacrament. Do you want him to flee from you? Visit Jesus often!” (St. John Bosco)

 Most of these quotes were regrouped by saint and taken from this link:

https://www.livebyfaith.nyc/catholic-briefs/benefits-of-eucharistic-adoration-from-the-saints/

About 5 -6 quotes were from other websites or the book: The Ceaseless Act of Love:  “I Will Think of Everything. You Think Only of Loving Me.” By Father Lorenzo Sales, Venerable Consolata Betrone’s Spiritual Director.