Eucharistic Reflection - Far Too Greedy Is the Soul for Whom Jesus Christ Is Not Enough!

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"Let us try to recognize the excess of divine charity, and let this be our measure of our gratitude and of our love. What shall we give to God to pay Him for giving Himself to us? Let us not search outside of ourselves; it is ourselves that He asks for, it is our love that He purchases with His own. He gives Himself to us only so that we might give ourselves to Him. He asks for ourselves, not that we should be His happiness, but that He should be ours; because the felicity of the creature is found only in the possession of God.

Oh! Far too greedy is the soul for whom Jesus Christ is not enough! All of us, let us find our contentment in Him and leave Him all the rest! He wants to be our unique possession, to the exclusion of ourselves and of all that is created. My God, what more can we desire after having received You in our hearts? In giving Yourself to us, do You not give  all things with Yourself? No, no, the Holy Sacrament alone is enough for a true victim; she finds all in Him; she has no need of anything else to sanctify herself, to perfect herself; for her, all is contained in the sacred Eucharistic Bread. Jesus Christ sacrificed is all her science, all her love, all her treasure. She finds in Him the lights and knowledge she needs."

(Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament from The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love)