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"Receive in this bread that which was hanged on the cross; receive in this cup that which was poured from Christ's side." - St. Augustine on the Eucharist "Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: It is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist." - Pope Benedict XVI, World Youth Day 2005 "What a great privilege to be able to live and work in the shadow of His Presence, such a powerfully magnetic Presence!" - Pope John Paul II, on having a personal chapel and tabernacle, Rise Let Us Be On Our Way, p. 147 "I'm not afraid to die." - Andrew Enriquez, a teen who died at 16 of Leukemia, after receiving his First Holy Communion in the hospital. "If love for the Eucharist dies out in a heart, faith vanishes therein, indifference holds sway, and into this night of the soul vices come forth like wild beasts seeking their prey." - St. Peter Julian Eymard "Near the tabernacle the soul finds strength, consolation and resignation." - St. Katherine Drexel "Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: The Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth." - J.R.R. Tolkien "What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament there? Isn't that enough to make us happy?" - Venerable Solanus Casey "When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries." - St. Josemaria Escriva
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