St. Alphonsus Eucharistic Quotes:
"Nowhere have holy souls
made more admirable resolutions than here at the feet of their hidden God. Out
of gratitude to my Jesus, veiled in this great Sacrament, I must declare that it
was through this devotion, visiting Him in the tabernacles, that I withdrew from
the world where, to my misfortune, I had lived until the age of twenty-six.
Happy will you be if you can separate yourself from it earlier than I did and
give yourself wholly to that Lord who has given Himself wholly to you."
“Suppose
that our Lord, Jesus Christ, would be present in only one church in the whole
world . . . . What a beautiful tabernacle would be built! What lighting would be
placed there! With what immense respect would respond all who succeeded to get
close! Well, Jesus is now in every Catholic Church where there are consecrated
hosts!”
"To souls enamored of
God, hours spent before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament appear moments."
"This (Blessed) Sacrament above all inflames the soul
with divine love. 'God is love' (1Jn.IV,8). And He is the fire which consumes in
our hearts all earthly affections: 'The Lord thy God is a consuming fire'
(Dt.IV,24). Now the Son of God came precisely to kindle this fire of love: 'I am
come to cast fire in the earth'; and He added that He did not desire other that
to see ignited this holy fire in our hearts: 'and what will I, but that it be
kindled?' (Lk.XII,49). And oh what flames of divine love Jesus Christ ignites in
each one who devoutly receives Him in this Sacrament!
"Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the
sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds the first
place, is the most pleasing to God, and the most useful to ourselves. Do not
then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the
conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half
or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the
sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord." - St. Alphonsus
Liguori, Bishop and Doctor, Italy (1696-1787)
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