<p> Eucharistic meditation/reflection quotes:</p><p>St. Alphonsus Liguori: </p><p>“Certainly, among all devotions after that of receiving the Sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is the most pleasing to God and the most useful to ourselves.”</p><p>“[Y]ou will find that all the Saints were enamored of this most sweet devotion since, indeed, it is impossible to find on earth a more precious gem or a treasure more worthy of all our love than Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament.”</p><p>“Be assured that the time you will thus spend with devotion before this most divine Sacrament will be the most profitable to you in life and the source of your greatest consolation in death and in eternity.”</p><p>“You must also be aware that in a quarter of an hour’s prayer spent in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, you will perhaps gain more than in all the other spiritual exercises of the day.”</p><p>“Be also assured that Jesus Christ finds means to console a soul that remains with a recollected spirit before the Most Blessed Sacrament, far beyond what the world can do with all its feasts and pastimes.”</p><p>“The love it is that detains him there, hidden and unknown.”</p><p>“Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the source of everything that is good.”</p><p>“It is there that Jesus distributes all the merits of His passion.”</p><p>------</p><p>Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida: “Who can explain that Divinity which hides itself in that consecrated Host, that draws us, fascinates us, attracts us and moves us? Jesus, You are the ideal of purity…of self denial…of abasement…of poverty…of those thousands and thousands of heroic and perfect virtues that I pursue and desire, with You, to make my own.”</p><p>St. Irenaeus: “God is perfect in everything, like unto Himself, all light, all reason, all essence, and the source of all goodness.” </p><p>St. John of Damascus (Syrian Christian Monk and priest who defended the veneration of holy images, wrote extensively on the Assumption of Mary, and is a doctor of the Church): “The Divine Essence is perfect, is in no way deficient in goodness, in wisdom and in power. It is without beginning, without end, eternal, boundless—in short, absolutely perfect.”</p>