“You consider Zacchaeus happy because Our Lord vouchsafed to enter his house and eat with him; you deem Saint John happy because he rested on the breast of our Savior at the Last Supper; and, above all, you regard Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary so very happy because they nourished and supported Our Dear Lord. But are you not as happy as they? Are you not even happier?

You do not hold Our Lord in your arms as Simeon did, but you receive Him into your heart in Holy Communion; you do not rest on the bosom of Saint John, but the Savior rests in your heart after Holy Communion; you do not nurse and support Our Lord like Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin, but you have a still greater happiness, for the Savior Himself nourishes you and gives Himself to you as your food. O Love! O Love! O who can understand the love of God for men!”

(The Blessed Eucharist – Father Michael Muller, C.S.S.R.)