'Behold the Mother of the Church presenting herself at the altar, and receiving in ecstatic recollection, with love redoubled by the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Sacred Body of her Divine Son! Behold her surrounded by her children born today to the Faith, leading them by her example, inflaming them with the fire of her own love, to receive worthily the Gift of God, and to guard in a pure conscience the Mystery of the Faith! O Communion of Pentecost! O happy Christians, seated at the Banquet of Life by the side of the Mother of God!'

St. Peter Julian Eymard