From Pope John Paul II

The visit to the Blessed Sacrament...

is a great treasure of the Catholic faith. It nourishes social love and gives us opportunities for adoration and thankgiving, for reparation and supplication. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hours and Eucharisitic processions are likewise precious elements of your heritage - in full accord with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament, is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, an act of love for Christ. And every sign of the Cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is an act of faith.

May God preserve you in this faith - this holy Catholic faith - this faith in the Blessed Sacrament.

- Pope John Paul II

"Set the Eucharist at the center of your personal life and community life: love the Eucharist, adore the Eucharist and celebrate it . . . Live the Eucharist by testifying to God's love for every person" - Pope John Paul II, World Youth Day, Rome 2000

"When we contemplate Him present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, Christ draws near to us and becomes more intimate to us than we are to ourselves. Remaining in silence before the Blessed Sacrament, it is Christ totally and really present whom we discover, whom we adore and with whom we are content." - Pope John Paul II

"I want to stress the centrality of the Eucharist for the life of the world to which the Lord has sent us as the seed of renewal. If the Church returns to her Eucharistic source, she will recover her authentic nature and strength, and that will relativize and highlight consecration to God and fraternal sharing that will enable her to overcome fragmentation and division. Moreover, the powerful presence of the sacrifice of Christ in the Eucharist keeps the Mass from being reduced to a gathering for a convivial meal. The Sacrifice stands for ever as a sign of contradiction, and is the place where we can verify the degree of our conformity to the radical message of Christ, in our relationship to God and with our brothers and sisters." - Pope John Paul II, January 2002