“Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love.” - Dominicae Cenae, Feb. “In the humble signs of bread and wine, changed into his body and blood, Christ walks beside us as our strength and our food for the journey, and he enables us to become, for everyone, witnesses of hope.” - Ecclesia de Eucharistia, April 17, 2003Ĩ. It embraces and permeates all creation.” - Ecclesia de Eucharistia, April 17, 2003ħ. “Because even when it is celebrated on the humble altar of a country church, the Eucharist is always in some way celebrated on the altar of the world. Eucharistic communion was given so that we might be ‘sated’ with God here on earth, in expectation of our complete fulfillment in heaven.” - Mane nobiscum Domine, Oct.
POPE JOHN PAUL II QUOTES ABOUT MEMORIES FULL
Am 8:11), a hunger which will be satisfied only by full union with him. Is this not the greatest of human yearnings? Is this not what God had in mind when he brought about in history his plan of salvation? God has placed in human hearts a ‘hunger’ for his word (cf. This relationship of profound and mutual ‘abiding’ enables us to have a certain foretaste of heaven on earth. “Receiving the Eucharist means entering into a profound communion with Jesus. “Bring to your encounter with Jesus, hidden in the Eucharist, all the enthusiasm of your age, all your hopes, all your desire to love.” - Mane nobiscum Domine, Oct. “The Eucharist, memorial of Christ's Passover, is by its nature the bearer of the eternal and the infinite in human history.” - General audience, Oct. “With the Eucharist the intimacy becomes total the embrace between God and man reaches its apex.” - General audience, Oct. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever!” - Address to young people of Bologna, Sept. He stays here with us: he is God with us. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world … Let Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. In honor of his recent feast day, here are 15 quotes from the late Roman Pontiff reflecting on his love for the Eucharist.ġ.
He was canonized a saint fewer than 10 years after his death, in 2014. He is perhaps most remembered for his charismatic nature, his love for young people, his world travels, and his role in the fall of communism in Europe. During his nearly 27-year pontificate, his teachings transformed the Catholic Church.
His “secret” to life and all that he did, he said, was the Eucharist - Christ present on earth.īorn Karol Józef Wojtyła in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920, the saint served as pope from 1978 until his death in 2005. Octo| CNA | Catholics worldwide remember St.
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