Eucharistic Reflection - Was It Not Enough?

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"O boundless charity! Just as You gave us Yourself, wholly God and wholly human, so You left us all of Yourself as food so that while we are pilgrims in this life we might not collapse in our weariness but be strengthened by You, heavenly food. O mercenary people! And what has your God left you?  He has left you Himself, wholly God and wholly human, hidden under the whiteness of this bread.

O fire of love! Was it not enough to gift us with creation in Your image and likeness, and to create us anew to grace in Your Son's blood, without giving us Yourself as food, the whole of divine being, the whole of God? What drove you? Nothing but Your charity, mad with love as You are!"

(From The Letters St. Catherine of Siena, Vol. translated by Suzanne Noffke, O.P.)