"The third effect of the Eucharist is to destroy hunger and give satiety. This effect pertains in a special way to the Eucharist, as is evident in the lives of the saints, who after Communion often received such peace of soul and such tranquility of passion that there was nothing for them to desire further. Nor is this anything to be amazed at, for Christ is the Spouse of our souls and our ultimate end, and when the soul enjoys His Presence, there truly is nothing left to be desired.
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From this satiety is born a new hunger for the same food and here we can see the difference which St. Gregory points out between the delights of the body and of the soul. In the former, satisfaction causes boredom; in the later it causes hunger, as we read in Wisdom (Sirach 24:21) 'They that eat Me, shall yet hunger, and they that drink Me, shall yet thirst'. From this peace and contentment follows the mortification of the passions since these come, as St. James says, from the appetites of the flesh, and when these are satisfied, the passions have no reason to be aroused, because the soul is content with what it has (James (4:1)."
(From Summa of Christian Life by Ven. Louis of Granada, O.P.)
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