St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647 to 1690)
Quotes On The Importance Of Eucharistic Adoration
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque is best known for the Lord revealing to her the devotion to His Sacred Heart. During these revelations, among other things, a "Holy Hour" of reparation was requested by our Lord. These revelations eventually helped to cement the idea of spending a "Holy Hour" before the Blessed Sacrament. Here are some of her quotes about the importance of Eucharistic Adoration in our lives:
- Jesus speaking to St. Margaret -
"Make Reparation for the ingratitude of men. Spend an hour in prayer to
appease divine justice, to implore mercy for sinners, to honor Me, to
console Me for My bitter suffering when abandoned by My Apostles, when
they did not WATCH ONE HOUR WITH ME."
(Fr. Mateo Crawley‑Boevey, Holy Hour of Reparation, Archconfraternity of the Holy Hour, 1914; English edition, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SS.CC.), c. 1945, p. (opening meditation).)
- "I desire but this one grace, and
long to be consumed like a burning candle in His holy Presence every
moment of the life that remains to me. For that I would be willing, I
think, to suffer all the pains imaginable till judgment day, if only I
should not have to leave His sacred presence."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter 100 to Mother de Saumaise, May 1689, TAN Books, 1997, p. 247.)
- "I could have spent whole days and nights there (in Eucharistic Adoration), without eating or
drinking, and without knowing what I was doing, except that I was
being consumed in His presence like a burning taper, in order to
return Him love for love."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letters, Letter 60 to Mother de Saumaise (1677), TAN Books, 1997, p. 171.)
- "My greatest joy is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter 60, TAN Books, 1997, pp. 142-143.)
- "He wishes you to honor His life wholly given for us in the Blessed Sacrament. You must be as a burning candle with no other desire than to be consumed in His honor. Surrender yourself to the Mercy of Providence and let Him do with you according to His designs."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter 100, TAN Books, 1997, p. 247.)
- "Today you will be the Sulamitess, the spouse of the Well-Beloved who wishes to honor the Life of love of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Thus you must attend carefully surrendering yourself pure and innocent to please this Divine Spouse."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter 107, TAN Books, 1997, pp. 260-262.)
- Jesus speaking to St. Margaret Mary - "I thirst with such a burning desire to be loved in the Blessed Sacrament that this thirst devours Me. But the sole return they make for all My eagerness to do them good is to reject Me and treat Me with coldness."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter 133, TAN Books, 1997, p. 309.)
- "He is there in the Blessed Sacrament for love of us."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 52.)
- "I feel myself drawn to the Blessed Sacrament as by a secret power."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 54.)
- "I could have remained forever before the Blessed Sacrament."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 55.)
- "He made me understand that He is the true Friend who never abandons us in the Blessed Sacrament."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 56.)
- "He asked me to make Him a return of love in the Blessed Sacrament."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 57.)
- "He made me see that His Sacred Heart is a furnace of love in the Eucharist."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 58.)
- "He told me that He remains in the Blessed Sacrament to pour out His graces upon souls."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 59.)
- "He complained to me of the coldness and indifference shown Him in the Blessed Sacrament."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 60.)
- "He asked me to keep Him company in the Blessed Sacrament."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 61.)
- "He made me understand that He desires to be loved in the Blessed Sacrament."
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Autobiography, TAN Books, 1997, p. 62.)
- Because Jesus loves you infinitely, unlimited is the joy you bring to His Sacred Heart when you
come to spend an hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. In an
apparition to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Jesus spoke these moving
words: 'I have a burning thirst to be honored by men in the Blessed
Sacrament'.