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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.