{"id":3244,"date":"2020-08-02T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2020-08-02T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T07:28:30","slug":"quotes-from-the-saints-on-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from the Saints on the Eucharist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>St. John Vianney, Cure d&#8217;Ars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison for it is but the sacrifice of man to God; but the Mass is the sacrifice of God for man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>St Faustina, Divine Mercy in my Soul<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cI desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, my daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things. They treat Me, as a dead object\u201d. (1385)<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Ambrose of Milan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is daily bread, why do you take it once a year?\u00a0 Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Angela of Foligno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ&#8217;s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John Vianney, Cure d&#8217;Ars &#8220;All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison for it is but the sacrifice of man to God; but the Mass &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3244\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","post-3244","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-Qk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}