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“Receiving Communion means entering into communion with Jesus Christ. ... What is given us here is not a piece of a body, not a thing, but him, the Resurrected one himself — the person who shares himself with us in love. ... This means that receiving Communion is always a personal act. GOD IS NEAR US, P. 81”
― Vinny Flynn, 21 Ways to Worship

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― Vinny Flynn, 7 Secrets of the Eucharist

“Confessing my sins is not enough. Forgiveness is not enough. I need to abandon sin. I need to restore to God what I have deprived Him of —a loving response to His love. God is calling us to respond to His love with our whole being, so that He can change our hearts and make them like His: Go, and sin no more. … Love as I have loved you. … Forgive as you have been forgiven. … Be merciful as your Heavenly Father is merciful. … Be holy, for I, your God, am holy.”
― Vinny Flynn, 7 Secrets of Confession

“We are each called to enter into an unbroken relationship with God, and Christ remains with us in the Eucharist to make this possible. The purpose of the Eucharist is to transform us, to divinize us so that we become like Christ and are continually united with Him.”
― Vinny Flynn, The 7 Secrets of the Eucharist

“As St. Faustina writes, “The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them” (Diary, 1215).”
― Vinny Flynn, 7 Secrets of the Eucharist

“St. Faustina often experienced this reality, not only during the liturgy, but also during times of adoration. In her prayer, “At the Feet of Christ in the Eucharist,” she writes: Oh King of Glory, though You hide Your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving You honor without cease and all the heavenly powers praising You without cease, and without cease they are saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy!” Diary, 80”
― Vinny Flynn, 7 Secrets of the Eucharist