"Where the Eucharist is, there is the King. And where the King is, there is the Kingdom. God's Kingdom is a Eucharistic Kingdom." ~ Scott Hahn #Saints #Quotes

"O wonderful the dignity of priests; in their hands, as in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, the Son of God becomes incarnate." ~ St. Augustine #Saints #Quotes

"The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible" ~ St. Gerard Majella #Saints #Quote

"Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. It is the priest who continues the work of redemption here on earth." ~ St. John of Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"It will not suffice to declare that we are "friends" of Christ, boasting of false merits: 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets' ( Lk 13: 26 ). True friendship with Jesus is expressed in the way of life: it is expressed with goodness of heart, with humility, meekness and mercy, love for justice and truth, a sincere and honest commitment to peace and reconciliation." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt. Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties." ~ St. Oscar Romero

"We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!" ~ Pope St. John Paul II

“Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.” ~ St. Melito of Sardis #Saints #Quotes #HolySaturday

"He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed." ~ 1 Peter 2:24 #Saints #Quotes #GoodFriday

"The “breaking of the bread” refers to the Eucharist. Two thousand years later, we continue to relive that primordial image of the Church. At every celebration of the Eucharist, we are spiritually brought back to the paschal Triduum: to the events of the evening of Holy Thursday, to the Last Supper and to what followed it." ~ Saint Pope John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes #SpyWednesday

"The Church must never cease to pray to the Lord of the harvest that he send laborers into his harvest." ~ St. Pope John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ." ~St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"But Palm Sunday tells us that... it is the cross that is the true tree of life." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!" ~ St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger. Pray for us that we might be a sign of the love of Christ for our people, that our presence among them will fortify them to endure these sufferings in preparation for the Kingdom." ~ Bl. Stanley Rother #Saints #Quotes

"Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious." ~ Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Him whom the heavens cannot contain the womb of one woman bore. She ruled our Ruler. She carried him in whom we all are. She gave milk to our Bread." ~ St. Augustine #Saints #Quotes

"To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature." ~ Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; it signifies Love, it produces Love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas #Saints #Quotes

"As the Word of God created heaven and earth, so, says , the words of the priest create Jesus Christ." ~St. Jerome

"It is necessary to pray for priests because they are so often forgotten by the living, since Christians often consider that priests do not need prayers." ~ St. Joseph Moscati #Saints #Quotes

"Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer, and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit." ~ Pope Francis

"On my desk I have a statue of St Joseph sleeping. While sleeping, he looks after the Church. Yes, he can do it! We know that. When I have a problem or a difficulty, I write on a piece of paper and I put it under his statue so he can dream about it. This means please pray to St Joseph for this problem." ~ Pope Francis

"How can I not praise the courageous fidelity of so many priests who, even amid difficulties and incomprehension, remain faithful to their vocation as “friends of Christ”, whom he has called by name, chosen and sent?" ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me." ~ St. Patrick

"O venerable sanctity of the hands! O happy function of the priest! He that created (if I may say so) gave me the power to create him; and he that created me without me is himself created by me!" ~ St. Augustine

“Do not ask everyone’s opinion, but only the opinion of your confessor; be as frank and simple as a child with him.” ~ St. Faustina Kowalska #Saints #Quotes

" Behind and before every vocation to the priesthood or consecrated life, is always the strong and intense prayer of someone: a grandmother, a grandfather, a mother, a father, a community … " ~ Pope Francis

"The power of the priest, is the power of the divine person; for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world." ~ St. Bernardine of Sienna

"The Church was born of the paschal mystery. For this very reason the Eucharist, which is in an outstanding way the sacrament of the paschal mystery, stands at the center of the Church's life." ~ Saint Pope John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"Do not be afraid to become the saints of the new millennium!" ~St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us." ~ St. John Vianney #Saints #Quotes

" Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can." ~ St. Dominic Savio

"The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying." ~ St. Anthony of Padua #Saints #Quotes

"Perhaps the sole ends of the priesthood are to say Mass, and to recite the Office, and then to live like seculars? No, the end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls. 'For every high priest,' says St. Paul, taken from among men, 'is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins: who

"It is not because of any human meriting that a man consecrates and administers the Sacrament of Jesus Christ, and receives the Bread of Angels for his food. Great is the Mystery and great the dignity of priests to whom is given that which has not been granted the angels. For priests alone, rightly ordained in the Church, have power to celebrate Mass and consecrate the Body of Christ." ~ Thomas A. Kempis #Saints #Quotes

"Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin…. In confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly. Hope and have confidence in confession." ~ St. Isidore #Saints #Quotes

"Do you wish to know if the people of any place are righteous? Look what sort of a pastor they have. If you find him pious, just, sound, believe the people will be the same, for they are seasoned with the salt of his wisdom." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you." ~ Pope John Paul I #Saints #Quotes

"Do you wish to know if the people of any place are righteous? Look what sort of a pastor they have. If you find him pious, just, sound, believe the people will be the same, for they are seasoned with the salt of his wisdom." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"Each priest is a man with a body of soft clay. To keep that treasure pure, he has to be stretched out on a cross of fire. Our fall can be greater than the fall of anyone else because of the height from which we tumble. Of all the bad men, bad religious men are the worst, because they were called to be closer to Christ." ~ Ven. Bishop Fulton V. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"Young people, have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus." ~ Pope St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"My children, we have come to the Sacrament of Orders. It is a Sacrament which seems to relate to no one among you, and which yet relates to everyone." ~ St. John Marie Vianney

"Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. The priest holds the key to the treasures in heaven... he is the steward of the good Lord; the administrator of his goods... the priest is not a priest for himself, he is a priest for you." ~ St. John Marie Vianney

“The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls.” ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori

"[The priest] does not preach a Christianity a la carte, according to his own tastes, preaching a Gospel according to his own preferred ideas, according to his own theological ideas. He does not exempt himself from proclaiming the whole will of God, also the uncomfortable will, also topics that personally do not please him so much." ~ Pope Benedict XVI

O Priest! You are not of yourself because you are of God. You are not of yourself because you are the servant and minister of Christ. You are not your own because you are the spouse of the Church. You are not yourself because you are the mediator between God and man. You are not from yourself because you are nothing. What then are you? Nothing and everything. O Priest! Take care, lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: ‘He saved others, himself he cannot sav

"The sign of a great Doctor of the Church is that he teaches not only through his thought and speech, but also with his life … If this is so, then Newman belongs to the great Doctors of the Church because he both touches our hearts and enlightens our thinking." ~ Pope Benedict XVI

"Hence, in one of the Sunday Secrets we say: 'Whenever the commemoration of this sacrifice is celebrated, the work of our redemption is enacted.'" ~ St. Thomas Aquinas #Saints #Quotes