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Eucharistic Quotes
"To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty," - St. Thomas Aquinas "The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life," - St. Thomas Aquinas "[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol. ...Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae "The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, it produces Love," - St. Thomas Aquinas "The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life," - St. Thomas Aquinas "The Bread of angels has "Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; "Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, "Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore - from Adoro te devote, by St. Thomas Aquinas; tr. Gerard Manley Hopkins "Being born he have himself as our Companion, - St. Thomas Aquinas, Verbum Supernum "O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze Thus Angels' Bread is made Thee, therefore, we implore, (Panis Angelicus, St. Thomas Aquinas)
"Almighty and Eternal God, behold I come to the Sacrament of Your "Hidden God, devoutly I adore Thee, truly present beneath these veils: all my heart subdues itself before Thee, since all before Thee faints and fails."
- Adoro Te Devote
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