St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811 to
1868)
Quotes On
The Importance Of Eucharistic Adoration
"In The Light Of The Monstrance" By St. Peter J. Eymard,
Eymard League (1948)
"To adore well we must, above all, talk to the Lord; He will answer us.
Everybody can talk to our Lord. Is He not in the Eucharist for everybody?
Does He not tell us, 'Come ye all to Me'? This conversation which goes
on between the soul and our Lord is the true Eucharistic Meditation, that
is, Adoration."
"A Forgotten Source Of Blessings: Solemn Exposition Of The Blessed Sacrament" By St. Peter J. Eymard
"Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy
Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of
its charity and its virtue."
"The Real Presence: Eymard Library" By St. Peter J. Eymard, Emmanuel Publications
"The object of Eucharistic adoration is the divine person of our Lord Jesus Christ present in the
most Blessed Sacrament. He is living there. He wants us to speak to him,
and he will speak to us. Anybody may speak to our Lord. Is he not there
for everybody? Does he not tell us, "Come you all to me"?"
"The grace of (Eucharistic Adoration) is given to everybody. In order,
however, to succeed in it and avoid routine or dryness of mind and heart,
adorers must seek inspiration in the grace of their vocation, in the various
mysteries of the life of our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin, or in the virtues
of the saints."
"When your hour is particularly difficult, rejoice all the more; your love will be greater
for its suffering more. It is a privileged hour that will count for two."
"Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one
passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts
of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal.
Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed
Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing."
"Look upon the hour of
adoration assigned to you as an hour in paradise. Go to your adoration
as one would to heaven, to the divine banquet. You will then long for
that hour and hail it with joy. Take delight in fostering a longing for
it in your heart. Tell yourself, "In four hours, in two hours, in one
hour, our Lord will give me an audience of grace and love. He has
invited me; he is waiting for me; he is longing for me."
"Jesus Christ has a right to honor; He demands it. He is our King, our Savior. We
must honor Him before we honor anybody else; we must offer Him the supreme
worship of adoration; we must honor Him publicly; for we are His people."
"Adore and praise the immense love Jesus has for you in this sacrament of
Himself. In order not to leave you a lonely orphan in this land of
exile and misery, He comes from heaven for you personally, to offer you
companionship and consolation. Thank Him therefore with all your love and
all your strength; thank Him in union with all the saints."
"Our Lord is always on His altar. He is there before the first visitor. Blessed is he
that receives the Savior’s first blessing!...As to sinners, Jesus waits for
them in His sacrament for weeks, and months, and even years. He stretches
out His arms for forty and sixty years to some sinner who finally gives in
to his entreaties."
"St. Joseph: Perpetual Adorer" Book By St. Peter J. Eymard
"Among the graces which Jesus
gave to His foster-father is that special to an adorer of the Blessed
Sacrament. That is the one we must ask of St. Joseph. Have confidence,
strong confidence in him. Take him as the patron and the model of your
life of adoration."
"With Mary Let Us Adore Him!" By St. Peter J. Eymard
"Society will again someday become Christian won to Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic Prayer."
"Eucharistic Adoration is the
most necessary mission to the Church, which has even more need of
prayerful souls than of powerful preachers or men of eloquence."
"Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the
foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all
missions, and it holds no perils. It is the most holy, for in it all
the virtues are practiced."
"Today more than ever have we need of men who, by their self-immolation,
disarm the anger of God inflamed by the ever increasing crimes of nations. We must have souls
who by their importunity re-open the treasures of grace which the indifference of the multitude has
closed. We must have true adorers; that is to say, men of fervor and of sacrifice."
"A Eucharistic Handbook" By St. Peter J. Eymard, Emmanuel Publications
"The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the
Church Militant, just as adoration of God in His glory is the end of
the Church Triumphant. A holy rivalry, a concert of prayer, a
harmony of divine service should exist between the heavenly court
and the Eucharistic court here below, between the adorer and his
mother the Church."
"Eucharistic Adoration is the greatest act of holiness on earth."
"Be a child full of love and openheartedness toward this good Master. And in
this labor of love do not speak all the time, but know how to remain silent
at the feet of Jesus; find your joy in seeing Him, in contemplating Him, in
listening to Him, and in realizing that you are in His Presence; the real
language of love is rather interior than exterior."
"…Mary spent days and
nights in the presence of the Divine Eucharist. That was her favorite
dwelling place; for her beloved Jesus lived and reigned there. What a sweet
and pleasant association of Son and Mother. Without the Eucharist, Mary
could not have lived here below; with it, life was pleasant for her; she
possessed Jesus; her state of life, her mission was adoration. The…years she
spent in the Cenacle were like the twenty-four hours of the day; she spent
them in the habitual exercise of adoration."
"Nothing can compare with the ardor and power of a soul as it seeks its Beloved and longs for Him; it
finds its happiness in longing for Him and seeking Him. The God of the
Eucharist conceals Himself in order to be desired, veils Himself in order to
become an object of contemplation; He wraps Himself up in mystery in order
to spur on and perfect the soul’s love. The Holy Eucharist thus becomes a
food ever new, ever powerful over the heart it inflames…"
Other St. Peter Julian Eymard Eucharistic Adoration Quotes
"I am fully convinced that if it were humanly possible to fully understand the value
of a Holy Hour everyone would make time to do it."
"The Divine King is ever ready to grant us an audience and to admit our souls to the
intimacy of his love."
"The Blessed Virgin is eager to make Jesus in the Eucharist known to all
and to group them into a Eucharistic Guard of Honor, a court of
devoted adorers."
"The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that
she could not live away from it. She lived in it and by it. She
passed her days and her nights at the feet of her divine Son."
"As we grow to know His voice better (in Adoration) and as our hearts
become more sympathetic to Him in emptying themselves of what is not
him, our Lord manifests Himself in a clearer and more intimate
manner...He gives the soul a divine conviction which overshadows the
light of human reason."
"Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed
Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to
adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the
Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men."
"Come, let the kingdom of Jesus Christ be established in you! Public Exposition
of the Most Blessed Sacrament is God's last grace to man."
"Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then,
all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a
divine prism through which they can all be studied."
"The Church shows to everyone her Bridegroom in the radiant
monstrance...Her friends are in adoration and her enemies tremble.
Jesus shows Himself to all men; He gives His blessing to the good;
He looks on sinners with compassion; He calls them and draws them to
Himself."
"Will you remain cold and indifferent (in taking part in Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration)? No! If there are societies for the spreading
of evil, you will form a society for the spreading of good, a
society of adoration."
"Adore Jesus in the Divine
Host by offering the sovereign homage of your mind to him who is its
sovereign truth, of your heart to him who is its God, of your will
to him who is its Lord."
"Like Moses, full of zeal
to announce the teaching of the Divine Master when he came down from
Mount Sinai, like the Apostles coming from the Cenacle, so should
the priests go from the church (in Eucharistic Adoration) straight
to the people to announce to them the Word of God."
"The great evil of our
time is that people do not go to Jesus Christ as to their very
Saviour and God. They abandon the only foundation, the only law, the
only grace of salvation... What is to be done then? We must return
to the fountain of life, and not just to the historical Jesus nor to
the Jesus glorified in heaven, but rather to Jesus in the Eucharist.
It is necessary to bring him out from the shadows so that he can
once again take his place at the head of Christian society."
"Going to the source, to Jesus, especially Jesus in
the Eucharist. That is the mission and glory of our
century, so it will be great among the greatest centuries, and saint
among the most holy. As it is well known, a century grows or
decreases because of his worship for the Holy Eucharist. This is
life and the extent of his faith, his love and virtue."
"Adore and visit Jesus,
abandoned and forsaken by men in His Sacrament of Love. Man has time
for everything except for visits to His Lord and God, who is waiting
and longing for us in the Blessed Sacrament."
"How kind is our
Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night.
His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you.
When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy,
His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one
would think He has need of you to make Him happy."
"The less Jesus is adored in the Blessed
Sacrament, the more present and powerful Satan becomes."
"Go to the good Lord very simply, with the
surrender of a small child. Tell the good Lord what you are
thinking, what you want, what is upsetting you. Oh! How happy
we become when we discover this interior conversation with our Lord.
We carry our treasure [with us] everywhere. He becomes the
center of our heart and life."
"Behold the Lamb of God, Behold God Himself! Adore Him!."
"Because his faith was so strong, Joseph's mind and heart bowed in perfect
adoration. Imitate his faith as you kneel before the humble Christ
annihilated in the Eucharist. Pierce the veil which covers this furnace of
love and adore the hidden God. At the same time respect the veil of love and
make the immolation of your mind and heart your most beautiful homage of
faith." (Source: Eucharistic Adoration Canada website - https://eucharisticadorationcanada.com)
"If you have this Eucharistic spirit, if your thoughts are tuned continually
toward the Eucharist, the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament will
never leave you."
"What need is there for me to see, to hear, to touch in
order to believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Sacred Host? Is not
His Divine Word guarantee enough?"
"Eucharistic adoration is the greatest
of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored
the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on
Calvary, in the divine Eucharist."
"Go to our Lord just as you are.
Be natural in your meditation. He wants the thought and prayer of that heart
as the genuine expression of its love for Him."
"Is not our Lord as meek
and humble in the blessed sacrament as He was during his life on earth? Is
He not always the good shepherd, the divine consoler, the changeless friend?
Happy the soul that knows how to findJjesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in
the Eucharist all things!"
"Whoever gives serious thought to the
Eucharist, and especially whoever partakes of it, cannot help feeling that
our Lord loves him. He feels that in Him he has a Father. He feels that he
is loved as a child and that he has a right to come to his Father and speak
to Him. In church, at the foot of the tabernacle, he is in His Father’s
home."
"Jesus Christ, though annihilated and concealed under the
sacramental veils, is yet King of heaven and earth. His children,
therefore, should seek by their interior sacrifices and external honor to
restore to Him the homage He has sacrificed for our love, and continue upon
earth a service that corresponds as far as possible to the glorious
adoration of the saints and angels in heaven. Our Lord will be taken
from His tabernacle. He will be exposed. He will reign."
