“…the principal proof and work of true love is to desire to
be united with the beloved. One who loves has all his faculties fixed on the
one he loves: intellect, memory, will, imagination, etc. As a result, love is
an alienation or ecstasy; it is a self-imposed exile from self, causing a man
to be transported to the beloved.
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Christ manifested this effect of love when He instituted the
Eucharist, because one of the reasons for which He instituted it was to incorporate
us to Himself and make us one with Himself. That is also why He used the
species of food, for as the food we eat becomes part of ourselves, so Christ
said: 'He that eats My flesh and drinks My blood, the same abides in Me and I
in him’.”
(Venerable Louis Granada, O. P. from the Summa of the Christian Life)
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