Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
JOHN VIANNEY
We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
More John Vianney Quotes
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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
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The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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