“There is often a mysterious drawing attraction felt in the soul after a conversion…an unmistakable longing of the heart when we place ourselves over time in physical proximity to the Blessed Sacrament. The person of Christ is a real presence when we are praying before a tabernacle…A veil lifts, and the personality of Our Lord becomes a real presence and is felt more deeply in a mysterious manner. His summons to ‘come to me’ is sensed in a very personal manner. We can listen to him without hearing him speak. We can be aware of his unseen gaze…This drawing power of love in the presence of the Eucharist can be keenly felt at times or it may not be felt at all, and still something draws us to him in the tabernacle. In a deep conviction of what is unseen with our visible eye, we can know that we are inexplicably loved when we are in the physical presence of his invisible reality…”

(Father Donald Haggerty from Conversion: Spiritual Insights into an Essential Encounter with God)