Eucharistic Reflection - Focus On He Whom You Should Love

“…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)