Sacraments Quotes
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Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.
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Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.
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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
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The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.
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And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.
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Every morning, even in the bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. Out from her Caughnawaga cabin at dawn and straight-way to chapel to adore the Blessed Sacrament, hear every Mass; back again during the day to hear instruction, and at night for a last prayer or Benediction.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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Why do the sacraments exist? They are a means of healing. The sacraments are not a means of discipline, but a help for man on his life’s journey and in the weak moments of his life.
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God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body
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Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.
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And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.
