“The Blessed Sacrament is the very center of our devotional life. It is the hearthstone round which the Catholic family gathers. With this left out, the whole tone of our devotional life would be Pondering Tidbits of Truth 18 radically different. The Sacred Humanity would still be an adorable reminiscence; the life of Christ might still ‘be our consolation and our hope’; but in the dark hours of existence how far off God would seem! If through some catastrophe all those little ruby lamps of the sanctuary were extinguished forever and the tabernacles left empty, what a darkness would fall on the world! What a happiness and ease of heart would vanish into the gloom! Every true Catholic understands this.”

(Eustace Boylan, S.J. from The Real Presence)