Meditation on the Eucharist

Deacon Clarence Enzler, in his book My Other Self, reflects on the Eucharist and puts these words on the lips of Jesus:

"When you begin to understand the Eucharist...you will begin to comprehend the depths of my love for you. Look at the Host...a wafer of bread. Never were appearances so deceiving! The host is myself...healer of lepers, giver of sight...he who wept at Lazarus' grave, who asked drink of the Samaritan woman...who forgave the adulteress...the Teacher, the Savior... Can you think of a better way for me to give you spiritual sustenance? Do you not see the love that prompts your God...how zealously I work to bring you close to me? To give myself to you...I had to make myself unlike you. I hid myself under the likeness of common food because I did not want you to shrink from coming to me. When I come to you in the Eucharist...I am in you! You are in me! In the Eucharist we become one flesh. You work not...alone, but I work in you. You serve others...not alone...I serve in you. You suffer, not...alone, but I suffer in you. You adore with me; you give thanks with me; you love with me; you live now, not yourself...but I live in you!"