• The worship of the Eucharist outside of Mass is of inestimable value as it is strictly linked to the celebration of the Eucharistic sacrifice. It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present in His heart.

• Let us take the time to kneel before Jesus present in the Eucharist, in order to make reparation by our faith and love for the acts of carelessness and neglect, and even the insults which our Savior must endure in many parts of the world.

• Faith demands that we approach the Eucharist fully aware that we are approaching Christ himself… the Eucharist is a mystery of presence, the perfect fulfillment of Jesus’ promise to remain with us until the end of the world.

• The presence of Jesus in the tabernacle must be a kind of magnetic pole attracting an ever greater number of souls enamored of him, ready to wait patiently to hear his voice and, as it were, to sense the beating of his heart. “O taste and see that the Lord is good!”

• Let us deepen through adoration and our personal and communal contemplation, drawing upon aids to prayer inspired by the word of God and the experience of so many mystics, old and new. The Rosary itself, when it is profoundly understood…will prove a particularly fitting introduction to Eucharistic contemplation, a contemplation carried out with Mary as our companion and guide.

• Receiving the Eucharist means entering into a profound communion with Jesus. “Abide in me, and I in you” (Jn15:4). This relationship of profound and mutual “abiding” enables us to have a certain foretaste of heaven on earth. Is this not the greatest of human yearnings?

• The Church is the Body of Christ: we walk “with Christ” to the extent that we are in relationship “with his body.” Christ provided for the creation and growth of this unity by the outpouring of his Holy Spirit. And he himself constantly builds it up by his Eucharistic presence. It is the one Eucharistic bread that makes us one body. As the Apostle Paul states, “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1Cor 10:17).

• More than ever, our troubled world, which began the new Millennium with the spectre of terrorism and the tragedy of war, demands that Christians learn to experience the Eucharist as a great school of peace, forming men and women who, at various levels of responsibility in social, cultural and political life, can become promoters of dialogue and communion.

• Every member of the Church must be vigilant in seeing that this sacrament of love shall be at the center of the life of the people of God so that through all of the manifestations of worship due to it, Christ shall be given back love for love, and truly become the life of our souls. The best, the surest and most effective way of establishing peace on the face of the earth is through the great power of Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

• May all of you, the Christian faithful, rediscover the gift of the Eucharist as light and strength for your daily lives in the world, in the exercise of your respective professions amid so many different situations. Rediscover this above all in order to experience fully the beauty and mission of the family.

• I have great expectations of you, young people…. Bring to your encounter with Jesus, hidden in the Eucharist, all the enthusiasm of your age, all your hopes, all your desire to love.

Note: Taken from Apostolic Letter Mane nobiscum Domine.