Drawn By A Superior Force

My heart feels as if it were being drawn by a superior force each morning just before uniting with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. I have such a thirst and hunger before receiving Him that it's a wonder I don't die of anxiety. I was hardly able to reach the Divine Prisoner in order to celebrate Mass. When Mass ended I remained with Jesus to render Him thanks. My thirst and hunger do not diminish after I have received Him in the Blessed Sacrament, but rather, increase steadily. Oh, how sweet was the conversation I held with Paradise this morning. The Heart of Jesus and my own, if you will pardon my expression, fused. They were no longer two hearts beating but only one. My heart disappeared as if it were a drop in the ocean. - Saint Padre Pio

Staying Still In Silence Before Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament Let's Us Perceive What He Wants From Us

It is by staying still, in silence, and possibly for long periods, before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, that we perceive what He wants from us, put aside our own plans to make way for His, and let God's light gradually penetrate the heart and heal it. - Fr. Cantalemessa

An Age Prospers Or Dwindles In Proportion To Its Devotion To The Holy Eucharist

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue. – Saint Peter Julian Eymard

I Have To Tear Myself Away From His Sacred Presence

When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can’t describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me. When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence. - Saint Anthony Claret

True Happiness Does Not Consist In The Pleasures of The World

With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner battles...Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience which we can have only if we are pure in heart and in mind. - Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

I Adore You From the Abyss of My Nothingness

My Lord Jesus Christ, who for the love which You bear
us, remain night and day in this Sacrament full of compassion
and love, awaiting, calling, and welcoming all who come to visit
You, I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the
Altar. I adore You from the abyss of my nothingness, and I
thank You for all the graces which You have bestowed upon me
and in particular for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament,
for having given me Your most holy Mother Mary as my
Advocate, and for having called me to visit You in this church. I
now salute Your most loving Heart; and this for three ends:
first, in thanksgiving for this great gift; secondly, to make
amends to You for all the outrages which You receive in this
Sacrament from all Your enemies; thirdly, I intend by this visit to
adore You in all the places on earth in which You are present in
this Sacrament and in which You are the least reserved and the
most abandoned. My Jesus, I love You with all my heart. I
grieve for having hitherto so many times offended Your infinite
goodness. I purpose by Your grace never more to offend You
for the time to come. And now, miserable and unworthy though
I be, I consecrate myself to You without reserve; I give You
renounce my entire will, affections, my desires, and all that I
possess. Henceforward, dispose of me and of all that I have as
You please. All that I ask of You and desire is Your holy love,
final perseverance and the perfect accomplishment of Your will.
I recommend to You the souls in Purgatory, and especially those
who had the greatest devotion to the most Blessed Sacrament,
and to the most Blessed Virgin Mary. I also recommend to You
all poor sinners. Finally, my dear Savior, I unite all my affections
with the affections of Your most loving Heart, and I offer them,
thus united, to Your Eternal Father, and beseech Him in Your
name to vouchsafe for Your love, to accept and grant them.
Amen.

People Are Seeing Through The Banality and The Pathetic Homemade Liturgies

"...we can...explain the fundamental change that has come about in the understanding of ritual and liturgy...: the primary subject of liturgy is neither God nor Christ, but the 'we' of the ones celebrating. And liturgy cannot of course have adoration as its primary content since, according to the deistic understanding of God, there is no reason for it. To an increasing degree people are seeing through the banality and the childish rationalism of the pathetic homemade liturgies with their artificial theatrics; it is becoming obvious how trivial they are. The authority of mystery has disappeared..." - Pope Benedict XVI

Time Before the Blessed Sacrament

You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity. - St. Alphonsus Liguori