One of Pope John Paul II’s recurrent teachings was that the Eucharist must be not only received but lived, and that “all who take part in the Eucharist be committed to changing their lives and making them in a certain way completely ‘Eucharistic’ … a transfigured existence and a commitment to transforming the world” (Ecclesia […]

We should begin and end everything with the Eucharist: “Every commitment to holiness, every activity aimed at carrying out the Church’s mission, every work of pastoral planning, must draw the strength it needs from the Eucharistic mystery and in turn be directed to that mystery as its culmination.” — Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de […]

The One whom we adore … is not some distant power. He has himself knelt down before us to wash our feet. And that gives to our adoration the quality of being unforced, adoration in joy and hope, because we are bowing down before him who himself bowed down, because we bow down to enter […]

“On leaving the earth, O Lord, You wanted to stay with us, and so You left us Yourself in the Sacrament of the Altar, and You opened wide Your mercy to us. There is no misery that could exhaust You; You have called us all to this fountain of love, to this spring of God’s […]

God doesn’t just love “humanity” in some general or abstract way. His love is personal, individual, and eternal: “Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony, and his Passion and gave himself up for each one of us” (Catechism, 1085).