Discover below the Phrases for the First Communion of Mother Teresa, Pope Francis and other Religious: important quotes from great men and women of the Church.
Phrases for First Communion
Once God is in you, it is for life, and there is no doubt. You can have uncertainties, it is true. But that particular one will never come back.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
The Eucharist is Jesus himself who gives himself entirely to us. Nourishing ourselves with Him and dwelling in Him through Eucharistic Communion, if we do it with faith, transforms our life, transforms it into a gift to God and to our brothers.
(Pope Francis)
The true effect of the Eucharist is to become the body of Christ.
(Jacques Benigne Bossuet)
In the humble sign of bread and wine, transubstantiated into his body and blood, Christ walks with us, as our strength and our viaticum, and makes us witnesses of hope for all. If in the face of this Mystery reason experiences its limits, the heart enlightened by the grace of the Holy Spirit understands well how to behave, immersing itself in adoration and in a love without limits.
(Pope John Paul II)
If you cannot recognize Christ in the poor, you will not be able to find him in the Eucharist. One, identical, equal faith illuminates both things.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
We want to pray to the Lord, that He may give us the ability to go beyond our limits, our world; that He may help us to meet Him, especially in the moment in which He Himself, in the most holy Eucharist, places Himself in our hands and in our heart.
(Pope Benedict XVI)
The Eucharist, although it constitutes the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect, but a generous remedy and nourishment for the weak.
(Pope Francis)
The measure of God’s love is to love without measure. And our life, with the love of Jesus, receiving the Eucharist, becomes a gift.
(Pope Francis)
Living water digs deep. Thus Communion penetrates the soul to the depths of its divinity.
(Matilda of Ringelheim)
When you are down, take the Word of God and go to Sunday Mass to take Communion, to participate in the mystery of Jesus. The Word of God, the Eucharist: they fill us with joy.
(Pope Francis)
Boys and girls, be worthy of Jesus, whom you receive with Communion! Be generous, innocent! Be kind to everyone, make the lives of others better. The secret of joy is kindness!
(Pope John Paul II)
Our souls must be like a transparent crystal through which God can be seen.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
The Eucharist is truly a glimpse of heaven that opens on earth. It is a ray of glory from the heavenly Jerusalem, which penetrates the clouds of our history and sheds light on our path.
(Pope John Paul II)
Do not look for Jesus in distant lands: He is not there. He is near you. He is with you!
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
In the Eucharist is the heart of the Church, the center of gravity of the world, of history; the passage to eternity.
(David Maria Turoldo)
Who is Jesus for me? Jesus is the Word made man. Jesus is the bread of life. Jesus is the victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered for my sins and for the sins of the world.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
May you always be content to know that you are a child of God. Let this presence take root in your bones, allow your soul to sing of freedom, to dance, to love and to glorify!
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
During the Eucharist we break a bread that is a medicine, an antidote so as not to die, but to live eternally in Jesus Christ.
(Ignatius of Loyola)
The Eucharist has a precise purpose: Jesus allows us to become one with him.
(Pope Francis)
We can participate in the Eucharist only by remembering the terrible exchange between our guilt, which God carries on his shoulders, and his innocence which he offers to us.
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)
The Eucharist is the beating heart of the Church. The center of gravity of the world. The passage into eternity.
(David Maria Turoldo)
The Eucharist is the height of divine love. Here Jesus gives us not only his merits and his pains, but all of himself.
(Elizabeth of the Trinity)
In the Sacrament of the Altar, the Lord comes to meet man, created in the image and likeness of God, becoming his traveling companion. In this Sacrament, in fact, the Lord becomes food for man hungry for truth and freedom.
(Pope Benedict XVI)
Jesus in the Eucharist is the sun. Everything is around him and behind him. He is our center: all our thoughts, words and works must start from the tabernacle and return to the tabernacle. Happy are we if we do so.
(Joseph Allamano)
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
(Gospel – John 15:1)
Everyone needs Communion: the good to remain good and the bad to become good.
(John Bosco)
The celebration of the Eucharist must not only be the most sacred duty, but above all the deepest necessity of the soul.
(Antonio Cañizares Llovera)
I keep Jesus in the Eucharist with me, and it is my joy.
(Pope John XXIII)
In the Eucharist, Jesus does not give bread, but the bread of eternal life, He gives Himself, offering Himself to the Father for our love. But we must go to the Eucharist with those feelings of Jesus, that is, compassion and that will to share. Whoever goes to the Eucharist without having compassion for the needy and without sharing, does not feel at ease with Jesus.
(Pope Francis)
In the Eucharist we break the only bread that is the medicine of immortality, the antidote to not die but to live in Jesus Christ.
(Ignatius of Antioch)
You who will make your First Communion, always remember, throughout your life, that day: the first day that Jesus came to us. He comes, becomes one with us, becomes our food, our meal to give us strength.
(Pope Francis)
The gesture of Jesus made at the Last Supper is the ultimate thanksgiving to the Father for his love, for his mercy. “Thanksgiving” in Greek is called “eucharist”.
(Pope Francis)
In Communion we possess Christ himself, not something of him. We do not receive some ray but the sun itself, to the point of permeating us, of forming a single spirit.
(Nicolas Cabasilas)
Communion is the heart of Christian initiation and is the source of the very life of the Church.
(Pope Francis)
The mystery of communion, which makes the Church a sign of the Father’s love, grows and matures in our hearts, when the love, which we recognize in the Cross of Christ and in which we immerse ourselves, makes us love as we ourselves are loved by Him. It is an endless love, which has the face of forgiveness and mercy.
(Pope Francis)
Find a minute to think, find a minute to pray, find a minute to laugh.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
Every time we take Communion we become more like Jesus, we transform ourselves more into Jesus.
(Pope Francis)
Let us approach the Eucharist with an ardent desire that it may burn away our sins and enlighten our hearts.
(John of Damascus)
The Eucharist, source of love for the life of the Church, is a school of charity and solidarity. Those who are nourished by the Bread of Christ cannot remain indifferent before those who do not have daily bread. And today, we know, it is an increasingly serious problem.
(Pope Francis)
Through this sacrament of love flows every authentic journey of faith, communion and testimony.
(Pope Francis)
I am the door; by me if anyone enters, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
(Gospel – John 10:9)
In a culture that is addicted to entertainment, some Christian churches have become entertainment centers. In the Eucharist we have something far more important than entertainment. We have love taken to extremes.
(Sean Patrick O’Malley)
Communion is the principle of the entire Christian community.
(Tarcisio Bertone)
It is so important to go to Mass on Sunday. Go to Mass not only to pray, but to receive Communion, this bread which is the body of Jesus Christ that saves us, forgives us, unites us to the Father.
(Pope Francis)
The bread of God is Jesus himself. By taking Communion with Him, we receive his life in us and become children of the heavenly Father and brothers among ourselves. By taking Communion we meet with Jesus truly alive and risen! Participating in the Eucharist means entering into the logic of Jesus, the logic of generosity, of sharing. And however poor we are, we can all give something.
(Pope Francis)
Jesus is the great “bridge builder”, who builds within himself the great bridge of full communion with the Father.
(Pope Francis)
I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
(Gospel – John 6:35)
Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
(Gospel – Matthew 4:4)
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed it, he broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “Take; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. Then Jesus said, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
(Gospel – Mark 14:22-25)
The Eucharist is the highest point of God’s saving action.
(Pope Francis)
The Eucharist constitutes the pinnacle of God’s saving action.
(Pope Francis)
Christ instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist as a memorial of his Passion.
(Thomas Aquinas)
God is bread, God is love, God is forever.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
May the encounter with Jesus be the beginning of a lifelong friendship.
(Pope Benedict XVI)
Even when it is celebrated on the small altar of a country church, the Eucharist is always celebrated, in a certain sense, on the altar of the world. It unites heaven and earth. It includes and pervades all creation.
(Pope John Paul II)
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
(Gospel – John 14:6)
