We are so distracted when we come to Mass that our spirit, doesn’t recognize Jesus, not for lack of desire or ability, but for lack of preparation and cultivation. We forget that our soul was hungry for the living God. We don’t see the abundance of God’s grace and activity in our lives because we don’t know how to see with spiritual eyes the work of God all around us.
We’ve lost the sense of the mysterious because we want to first understand a logical explanation before we believe.
How happy Jesus would be if we learned how to recognize him in the breaking of the bread, to savor the moment of encounter, to relax in the peace of his presence, to worship the majesty of his humble appearance in the species of bread and wine. If we could make him happy just to recognize him, then I think our lives would also be happier because we would be compelled to give away what we had received. Then, we would have become what we have consumed.
