AT HIS FEET: Inspirations for Eucharistic Prayer Before the Lord of Love in the Eucharist
Never forget that Jesus Christ is no less powerful, no less generous in the Blessed Sacrament than he was during his mortal life on earth. (St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier)
The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself. (St. Peter Eymard)
The Eucharist is everything, because from the Eucharist, everything is. (St. Peter Julian Eymard)
It is Jesus. He is alive. In the Eucharist, we go to a living encounter with Jesus. (Pope Francis)
Jesus said, I thirst… I so ardently thirst to be loved by men in the Most Blessed Sacrament that this thirst devours me. ((Jn 19: 28; Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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)
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. Josemaría)
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy. (St. Peter Eymard)
Frequently, only silence can express my prayer. However, this Divine Guest of the tabernacle understands all, even the silence of a child’s soul filled with gratitude. When I am before the tabernacle, I can say only one thing to Our Lord: ‘My God, you know that I love you’ and I feel my prayer does not tire Jesus; knowing my weakness, He is satisfied with my good will. (St.Therese of Lisieux)
I devoutly adore you, O hidden Deity, / Who truly dwell hidden beneath these signs. / To you my whole heart surrenders, / For in contemplating you, all else seems vain. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
O fire of love! Was it not enough to gift us with creation in your image and likeness, and to create us anew to grace in your Son’s blood, without giving us yourself as food, the whole of divine being, the whole of God? What drove you? Nothing but your charity, mad with love as you are! (St. Catherine of Siena)
Consider what is most beautiful and most noble on earth, what pleases the mind and the other faculties, and what delights the flesh and the senses And the world, and the other worlds that shine in the night: the whole universe. Well this, along with all the follies of the heart satisfied, is worth nothing, is nothing and less than nothing compared... with this God of mine!—of yours! Infinite treasure, pearl of great price, humbled, become a slave, reduced to the form of a servant in the stable where he chose to be born, in Joseph’s workshop, in his passion and in his ignominious death... and in the madness of Love, the blessed Eucharist. (St. Josemaría)
Look upon the hour of adoration assigned to you as an hour in paradise. Go to your adoration as one would to heaven, to the divine banquet. (St. Peter Julian Eymard)
The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth. (St. Mother Teresa)
The Kingdom of God...is brought near in the Word incarnate...it has come in Christ’s death and Resurrection...In the Eucharist, it is in our midst. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2816)
O memorial of our Lord’s death, / Living Bread that gives life to man. /Grant that my soul may live by you, / And always savor your sweetness. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Jesus is inside an abandoned tabernacle. The Heart of Jesus in the tabernacle looks at me. He looks at me always. He looks at me everywhere. He looks at me as if he doesn’t have anyone else to look at but me. He is in desperate need of a friend. His gaze was telling me much and asking me for more: a gaze reflecting all the sadness of the Gospels: “No room in the inn;” “Do you also want to leave me?” (cf. St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia)
Be a eucharistic soul! —If the center around which your thoughts and hopes turn is the Tabernacle, then, my child, how abundant the fruits of your sanctity and apostolate will be! (St. Josemaría)
How great is the value of conversation with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, for there is nothing more consoling on earth, nothing more efficacious for advancing along the road of holiness! (St. Pope Paul VI)

