July 23

"From the depths of my heart I thank You, dear Lord,

for Your infinite kindness in coming to me.

I thank You for nourishing my soul

with Your Sacred Body and Precious Blood.

Grant that I may spend the hours of the day gladly

working with You according to Your will."

-Act of Thanksgiving

July 22

"I beg you, O my Divine Bridegroom, to be the Restorer of my soul... Tomorrow, with the help of your grace, I will begin a new life in which each moment will be an act of love and renunciation."

-St. Therese of Lisieux

July 21

"When we kneel before the tabernacle, when we receive Holy Communion, we acknowledge the awesome reality that God, who made the heavens and earth, the ruler of all that is and was and is to come, chose to come and dwell in our church -- to be food for our souls."

-Dale O'Leary

July 20

"It is through the sacraments and the exercise of the virtues that the sacred nature and organic structure of the priestly community is brought into operation... Taking part in the Eucharistic sacrifice, which is the fount and apex of the whole Christian life, they offer the Divine Victim to God, and offer themselves along with It. Thus both by reason of the offering and through Holy Communion all take part in this liturgical service, not indeed, all in the same way but each in that way which is proper to himself. Strengthened in Holy Communion by the Body of Christ, they then manifest in a concrete way that unity of the people of God which is suitably signified and wondrously brought about by this most august sacrament.

-Lumen Gentium, No. 11

July 19

"And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit."

-2 Corinthians 3:18

July 18

"Can you not spend one hour with me?"

-Matthew 26:40

July 17

"In our inner life it is the Eucharist above all which expresses our personal union with Jesus... The more perfectly we become assimilated to Christ in the Eucharist the more perfect will be our unity in him."

-Canon Jacques Leclercq

July 16

"Jesus, transform me, miserable and sinful as I am, into your own self..."

-St. Faustina Kowalska

July 15

"The priest says 'Let us give thanks to the Lord.' Certainly we ought to give thanks to God for having invited us, unworthy as we are, to so great a gift; for God having reconciled us to Himself when we were His enemies; for having made us His adopted sons by the Spirit."

-St. Cyril of Alexandria (350 AD)

July 14

"How sweet the [Eucharistic] presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound."

-St. Elizabeth Ann Seton