"If you will not communicate for your own sake, the communicate instead for Jesus Christ. To communicate for Jesus Christ is to console Him for the neglect to which the majority of men have abandoned him; it is to confirm His wisdom in instituting this Sacrament of spiritual sustenance; it is to open the riches of the treasures of grace which Jesus Christ has stored up in the Eucharist only that He may bestow them on mankind; nay more, it is to give to His sacramental love the overflowing life it desires, to His goodness the happiness of doing good, to His Majesty the glory of bestowing His gifts. By receiving Communion, therefore, you fulfll the glorious purpose of the Holy Eucharist; for if there were no communicants, this fountain would flow in vain; this furnace of love would inflame no hearts; this King would reign without subjects."

"Something divine will then come to pass in the one who communicates; man will labor, and Jesus will give the grace of labor; man will keep the merit, but to Jesus will be the glory; Jesus wil be able to say to His Father: 'I love Thee, I adore Thee, and I still suffer, living anew in My members.
"This is what gives Communion its highest power: it is a second and perpetual incarnation of Jesus Christ; between Jesus Christ and man it forms a union of life and love; in a word, it is a second life for Jesus Christ."

-St. Peter Julian Eymard, Holy Communion