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I cannot say this without tears and great joy of soul! How You desire, Lord, thus to be with us and to be present in the [Blessed] Sacrament ... You would be glad to be with us since You say that Your delight is to be with children of the earth.

How they came to disturb me after Communion! They stared me in the face... but in order not to be provoked, I thought of Our Lord, who retreated into solitude and was unable to prevent the people from following Him there. And He didn’t want to send them away. I wanted to imitate Him by receiving the Sisters kindly.

When Jesus made in me His dwelling place,

When God took possession of my heart,

So well that since that hour,

Since that mysterious colloquy,

That divine and delicious meeting,

I have aspired to nothing else but to give my life

In order to return a bit of His great love

To the Beloved of the Eucharist

Who reposed in my feeble heart,

Inundating it with all of his favors.

Devotion to Jesus Eucharistic will be, and is for me the source of patience, of perseverance, of refuge, of consolation. It is literally the very source of my life. Without this mystery of the Savior's love left us in the Church, I would have been lost long ago.

Each incident, each event, each suffering, as well as each joy, is a sacrament which gives God to it; so it no longer makes a distinction between these things; it surmounts them, goes beyond them to rest in its Master, above all things.

I could wish never to die till the end of the world that I might live always at the feet of my Beloved comforting Him in His agony Who is exiled in His tabernacle for love of His creatures who often offend and forget Him.

Sometimes … after receiving Communion I was at peace. And sometimes, in approaching the Sacrament, I felt at once so good in soul and body that I was surprised. It seems that in only a moment all the darknesses of the soul disperse.

The Grace that God has given me, after Baptism and the Eucharist, is all the greater and more sublime, the more unworthy my person is.

I always returned to my custom of rejoicing in this Lord, especially when I received Communion. I wanted to keep ever before my eyes a painting or image of Him since I was unable to keep Him as engraved in my soul as I desired.

His Majesty gave us, as I have said, the manna and nourishment of His humanity that we might find Him at will and not die of hunger, save through our own fault. In no matter how many ways the soul may desire to eat, it will find delight and consolation in the most Blessed Sacrament.

Almighty Father, I place the Precious Blood of Jesus before my lips before I pray, that my prayers may be purified before they ascend to Your divine altar.

Conquering the tongue is better than fasting on bread and water.