Why would the Saints love to receive daily Communion?

For our sake Jesus is in the Tabernacle and He is the Food of our souls. If you want to nourish yourself spiritually and be fully supplied with life then you must receive Him, just as everyday we feed our body in order to give it physical vitality. The Eucharist is the ‘Bread of life’ (John 6:35), the ‘Bread that has come down from heaven’ (John 6:59), which bestows, replenishes, preserves and increases the spiritual energies of the soul. For the Saints, daily Communion fulfils an imperative need for Life and Love, corresponding to Jesus’ divine desire to give Himself to be every soul’s Life and Love. St Therese of Lisieux wrote to another Sister, “It is not in order to occupy a golden ciborium that Jesus everyday comes down from heaven, but it is to find another heaven, namely, our soul, in which He takes His delight,” and when a soul well able to do so does not want to receive Jesus into its heart, “Jesus weeps.”

Daily Communion is a daily wellspring of love, of strength, of light, of joy, of courage, of every virtue and every good. The great Lord Chancellor of England, St Thomas More, used to hear Mass every morning and receive Holy Communion. Some friends tried to persuade him that this care was not suitable for a layman heavily engaged in so many affairs of state. “You present all your reasons, and they rather convince me the more that I should receive Holy Communion everyday,”

he said, “my distractions are numerous, and with Jesus I learn to recollect myself. The occasions of offending God are frequent, and I receive strength everyday from Him to flee from them. I need light and prudence to manage very difficult affairs, and everyday I can consult Jesus in Holy Communion. He is my great Teacher.” We are blessed that we can openly attend Mass in this country; let us not waste this daily opportunity, as St Peter Eymard said, “Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but One for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready. Let us not forfeit even One of Them.”

(Source from Jesus Our Eucharistic Love, Fr Stefano Manelli, Our Blessed Lady of Victory Mission, 1973)