The Blessed Sacrament is God. Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is
simply divine worship. Turn it which way we will, throw the light of
love and knowledge now on one side of it, now on another, still the
result is the same, the one inexhaustible sweet fact of the Real
Presence. In the hands of the priest, behind the crystal of the
monstrance, on the tongue of the communicant, now, and for a thousand
times, and almost at our will and pleasure, there are the Hands and
Feet, the Eyes and Mouth, the swift Blood and living Heart of Him whom
Thomas touched and Magdalen was fain to touch, the Soul that delighted
Limbus with its amazing beauty and set the prisoners free, nay the
Eternal, Incomprehensible, Almighty Word who is everywhere and yet fixed
there, the flashing fires of whose dear glory we could not bear to see,
and so for love of us He stills them and He sheathes them in the quiet
modesty of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Blessed SacramentFr. Frederick William Faber, D.D.