The Eucharist is our life

 -Lourdes Pinto: "It is He who will guide our every step and direct our lives. Our mission will flow from our time in the Blessed Sacrament. He is our Beloved who will never abandon us!" -Jan. 2010

Eucharist: gift of the Father and of Mary

-St. John Eudes: “The Father of Mercies and the God of all consolation, in his exceedingly great and Fatherly love, gave us his well-beloved Son at the time of his Incarnation, and gives him to us daily in the most Blessed Sacrament. So, too, the most Blessed Mother of Mercy and Consolation, in the boundless charity of her maternal Heart, gave us her dear Jesus at his birth, and does so continually in the Holy Eucharist, because being one with him in spirit, in love, and in will, she wills all that he wills and does all that he does” 

Give Him your whole heart as a sacrifice of love.

-St. Peter Julian Eymard: "He who makes Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament the center of his life directs all his thoughts, all his study, all his virtues toward him"

-St. Peter Julian Eymard: “Our Lord does not ask you to have two hearts, one for Him and one for those you love here below. Mothers, love our Eucharistic Lord with a mother's love. Love Him as your son. Wives, love Him as your husband. Children, love Him as your Father. There is only one faculty of love in us”

-Pope Bl. John XXIII: "My desire henceforth is to do all ... in intimate union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament" - Journal of a Soul.

-Pope Benedict XVI:  "Becoming the Eucharist: let this be our constant desire and commitment! So that the offer of the Body and Blood of the Lord we make upon the altar may be accompanied by the sacrifice of our own lives. Every day we draw from the Body and Blood of the Lord the free and pure love that makes us worthy ministers of Christ and witnesses to His joy. What the faithful expect from a priest is the example of authentic devotion to the Eucharist. They like to see him spend long periods of silence and adoration before Jesus, as did the saintly 'Cure of Ars' whom we will especially recall during the imminent Year for Priests" -Homily for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, June 11, 2009.

Saint Faustina:  "I went at once before the Blessed Sacrament and offered myself with Jesus, present in the Most Holy Sacrament, to the Everlasting Father.  Then I heard these words in my soul:  Your purpose and that of your companions is to unite yourselves with Me as closely as possible; through love You will reconcile earth with heaven, you will soften the just anger of God, and you will plead for mercy for the world.  I place in your care two pearls very precious to My Heart:  these are the souls of priests and religious.  You will pray particularly for them; their power will come from your diminishment.  You will join prayers, fasts, mortifications, labors (9) and all sufferings to My prayer, fasting, mortifications, labors and sufferings and then they will have power before My Father." -Diary #531. November 24, 1935.

His Eucharistic presence is dynamic. He draws us to Him, makes us come out of ourselves to make us all one with Him. This communion with Him is how he integrates us in the community.

-Pope Benedict XVI: "Christ is truly present among us in the Eucharist. His presence is not static. It is a dynamic presence that grasps us, to make us his own, to make us assimilate him. Christ draws us to him, he makes us come out of ourselves to make us all one with him. In this way he also integrates us in the communities of brothers and sisters, and communion with the Lord is always also communion with our brothers and sisters. And we see the beauty of this communion that the Blessed Eucharistic gives us...He is the one same Christ who is present in the Eucharistic Bread of every place on earth"  -June 1, 2005, L'Osservatore Romano.

At Mass we share in the Lord's passion

-Pope St. Leo the Great: "Although failure to observe the paschal solemnity would be a very grave offense, it would be still more dangerous to take part in the liturgy without sharing in our Lord´s passion... We can give authentic worship to the suffering, dead, and risen Christ only if we ourselves suffer, die, and rise again with him." 

Go to daily mass. Adore the Eucharist. It is our very life from which flows charity

-Pope Benedict XVI: “The Eucharist is the ‘treasure’ of the Church, the precious heritage that her Lord has left to her. And the Church preserves it with the greatest care, celebrating it daily in holy Mass, adoring it in churches and chapels, administering it to the sick, and as viaticum to those who are on their last journey . . . . “On this feast day, the Christian Community proclaims that the Eucharist is its all, its very life, the source of life that triumphs over death. From communion with Christ in the Eucharist flows the charity that transforms our life and supports us all one our journey toward the heavenly Homeland.  -Homily for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, June 11, 2009.

-St. John Vianney: “We ought to visit Him often. How dear to Him is a quarter of an hour spared from our occupations or from some useless employment, to come and pray to Him, visit Him, and console Him for all the ingratitude He receives! When He sees pure souls hurrying to Him, He smiles at them” -Cure of Ars, Patron of Priests

-Pope Benedict XVI: "With how much faith and love the Virgin must have received and adored the Blessed Eucharist in her heart. For her, each time was like reliving the entire mystery of her Son Jesus, from conception to resurrection" -June 14, 2008.

Eucharist at the center of life and community

-Pope John Paul II: "Eucharist and mission are two inseparable realities. There is no authentic celebration and adoration of the Eucharist that does not lead to mission. At the same time, the mission presupposes another essential Eucharistic element: union of hearts....Never tire of celebrating and adoring it, together with the whole Christian community, especially on Sunday. Know how to put it at the center of your personal and community life so that communion with Christ will help you to undertake courageous options"  -Oct. 11, 2004, Address to Young People, Rome.

Spread adoration

St. Peter Julian Eymard:  Priest of the Eucharist Adorers are “not content to be alone in adoring, loving, and serving the God of the Eucharist,” they wish “to make Him adored, loved and served by all…to erect a throne of love for Him everywhere and find faithful adorers for Him.”