Holy Communion Quotes

“If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.”
― Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul

“I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.”
― St. Therese of Lisieux, The Letters of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

“To share Eucharistic communion with someone unbaptized, or committed to another story or system, is odd—not because the sacrament is 'profaned', or because grace cannot be given to those outside the household, but because the symbolic integrity of the Eucharist depends upon its being celebrated by those who both commit themselves to the paradigm of Jesus' death and resurrection and acknowledge that their violence is violence offered to Jesus. All their betrayals are to be understood as betrayals of him; and through that understanding comes forgiveness and hope. Those who do not so understand themselves and their sin or their loss will not make the same identification of their victims with Jesus, nor will they necessarily understand their hope for their vocation in relation to him and his community. Their participation is thus anomalous: it is hard to see the meaning of what is being done.”
― Rowan Williams, Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel

“To light one candle in the cottage of a poor villager is a thousand times holier than lighting a thousand candles in the church.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine