Sacrament of love

"All expressions of love, even the highest and the most profound, are verified in the Eucharist. Thus, it is a Love that is crucified, a Love that unites, a Love that adores, a Love that contemplates, a Love that prays, a Love that delightfully satisfies,"
Fr. Stefano Manelli

"but why is it that Jesus Christ so longs for us to receive Him in Holy Communion? Here is the reason: Dionysius the Areopagite says that love always sighs and aims for union, and we read in St. Thomas, "Lovers desire to cease being two and to become one". now this has led the infinite love of God not only to give us Himself completely in the eternal kingdom, but even in this life to let men and women possess Him in the most intimate union possible, by giving Himself to them completely under the appearances of bread in the sacrament....

..He could not satisfy His love by giving Himself entirely to the human race by His Incarnation and by His Passion, dying for all people. He sought to find a way to give Himself entirely to each one of us in particular; and so He instituted the sacrament of the altar in order to unite Himself fully with each one of us: "those who eat My flesh and drink My blood abide in Me, and I in them". (John 6:56). In Holy Communion Jesus is united with the soul, and the soul with Jesus; and this is not a union of mere affection, but a true and real union. Hence St. Francis de Sales says: "In no other action can the Savior be considered more tender or more loving then in this one, where He annihilates Himself, so to say, and reduces Himself to food, in order to penetrate our souls and to united Himself to the hearts of the His faithful."

-St. Liguori