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

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

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.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the 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.

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

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

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.