“How could I, a poor sinner, who
have so often offended You, dare to approach You, O Lord, if I beheld You in
all your majesty? Under the appearance of bread, however, it is easy to approach
You, for if a king disguises himself, it seems as if we do not have to talk to
him with so much circumspection and ceremony. If you were not hidden, O Lord,
who would dare to approach You with such coldness, so unworthily, and with so
many imperfections?
(St. Teresa of Avila
from The Way of Perfection)
