In the quiet of the heart...

 "It seems to me that I have found my heaven on earth, because

my heaven is you, my God, and you are in my soul. 

You in me, and I in you - may this be my motto." - St Elizabeth of the Trinity

"When one has just received communion,

of what use are the words of men

when it is God who is speaking?

We must listen

to what the good Lord says to our heart."

St John Vianney

Photo: La Purisima Concepcion Catholic School students pray during Mass (Los Angeles, California, 2011)

"I want God too!"...

"Possessing this treasure of holy Mass, hope breathes again;
and if we but throw it not away by our own mismanagement, 
we have holy paradise within our grasp."

- Saint Lawrence (in The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass)

 

"When I was still a child" - she testified - "and before I was old enough to receive Jesus in Communion, I used to rush to the front door to greet my  mother when she returned from Mass.

There I stood on tiptoe to reach up to her and cried, 

'I want God too!'

My mother would bend down and softly breathe on my lips; I immediately left her, and placing my hands across my chest, full of joy and faith, jumping for joy I would keep repeating: 'I have received God too! I have received God too!' "

Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, O.C.D (1884-1949)