
“The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the world.” Pope Saint John Paul II
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not ‘How can we make community?’ but, ‘How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?’
Henri Nouwen
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.
Mother Teresa
“To convert somebody, go and take them by the hand and guide them.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
“Teach us to give and not count the cost.” – St. Ignatius of Loyola
“The bread that you see on the altar and the wine that is in the chalice are not only signs of the Body and Blood of Christ; through the prayer said over them they become the Body and Blood of Christ in reality. St Athanasius
As two pieces of wax fused together makes one, so he who recieves Holy Communion is so united with Christ. That Christ is in him and he is in Christ. St Cyril of Alexandria
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