The Church is the bride of Christ, and so is every godly soul; let it take heed then not to cling to Satan in an unholy union.—Johann Gerhar...

Contemplate, O devout soul, the exalted dignity of the Church, and render due thanks to Almighty God. Great indeed are the benefits which Go...

The holy Church of God sustains the relations of mother, virgin, bride. She is mother because she daily bears spiritual sons to God. She is ...

No man will have God as his Father in heaven who refuses to have the Church for his mother upon the earth.—Johann Gerhard (quoting St. Cypri...

It was appropriate that He [the Holy Ghost] should come like unto wind, since He proceeds from the Father and the Son by an eternal breath.—...

He [the Holy Ghost] unites us to Christ through faith; He makes God one with us through love; He joins us to our neighbor in Christian affec...

What wonder is it that the Holy Spirit is sent from heaven to sanctify us, when the Son of God had already been sent to redeem us? All the b...

Christ is our glorious head; we are the members of His body; rejoice thou and shout for joy, O faithful soul, in the ascension to heaven of ...

 Ah, in what awful anguish I saw Thee upon Mount Calvary, and now in what glory I behold Thee upon Mount Olivet! There Thou didst suffer alo...

As we journey here as pilgrims, the Lord is present with us, but in another and invisible form; in our home in the heavenly fatherland above...

Christ, our treasure, is in heaven; let us then set our affections upon heavenly things, or meditate upon those things that are above.—Johan...

O let us greatly fear to come to that solemn marriage supper of the Lamb clad in the miserable and filthy garment of our own works; but clot...

Thus, this Holy Supper will transform our souls; this most divine sacrament will make us divine men, until finally we shall enter upon the f...

The apostle tells us in one word what constitutes true preparation: “Let a man examine himself,” he says, “and so let him eat of that bread”...

This Holy Supper is no common meal, nor is it the banquet of an earthly king; but here we have placed before us the holy mystery of the body...

The holy flesh of God, which the angelic hosts adore in the unity of the divine nature, before which the archangels bow in lowly reverence, ...

Christ holds us dear because He hath bought us at so dear a price; He holds us dear because He feeds our souls with so dear and precious foo...

So, in this Holy Supper we have the true tree of life again set before us, that sweet tree, whose leaves are for medicine and whose fruit is...

Great indeed is the honor put upon our bodies, inasmuch as they are the dwelling places of our souls redeemed and fed by the body of Christ ...

Marvelous is the goodness of our Saviour, that He not only assumed our nature in His incarnation, and carried it with Him to His throne of h...