Eucharistic Reflection - We Think So Little of Him

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"A God – greatness, power, richness itself- reduces Himself to nothing for us in the Host, and we think no more of it than one would of something commonplace and ordinary. O stupidity! Oh, the ingratitude of men! One does not think of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and, yet, is this not, of all mysteries, the most divine, of all marvels the most prodigious, the most inconceivable? What has one said of this divine mystery up until the present that in any way approaches the reality of it? What are the most learned men’s discourses next to what it is in truth? No, no, there is not a tongue that would know how to express the grandeurs, the riches hidden in our tabernacles. It is an abyss impenetrable to the human spirit. You Yourself, O God, reveal to some privileged soul the secret of this mystery, and put Your spirit within her, that she might speak of it worthily, for, in truth, we know nothing of it.”

(Venerable Catherine Mectilde de Bar from The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love)