57 Quotes About Eucharist

Elect from every nation, Yet one o'er all the earth; Her charter of salvation, One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy name she blesses, Partakes one holy food, And to one hope she presses, With every grace endued.

When one gets to Clement or Hippolytus, we are clearly a long way from what we find in Paul and the Gospels, where the influence of the Passover is still strongly present and the meal is seen as a family meal, taken in the home, a memorial meal to remember Jesus’ death until his return...Here then is a cautionary reminder — the less Jewish the approach one takes to the Lord’s Supper, the more likely one is to be wrong about one’s assessment of what is the case about the elements.

Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

What difference does it make if the bread and wine turn into the Body and Blood of Christ and we don't?

Jesus is there in His Word, in the Eucharist waiting for them to come to Him and ask for His healing… to ask Him ‘Heal my Wounds’.

The disciples have lost their beloved teacher and when he returns to console them, he reminds them that he has already given them, in the shared breaking of bread, a way to conjure his presence among them again and again.

The Eucharist is the sacrament of cosmic remembrance: it is indeed a restoration of love as the very life of the world.

But a dauntless faith believes

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.