One day an Arabian prince, Abd-ed-Kader, while passing through a street of Marseille with a French official, saw a priest who was carrying Holy Viaticum to a dying man. The French official stopped, uncovered his head, and knelt. His friend asked him the reason for this gesture.
“I adore my God, whom the priest is carrying to a sick person,” replied the good official.
“How is it possible,” the prince said, “for you to believe that God who is so great, makes Himself so little and lets Himself go even to the homes of the poor? We Mohammedans have a much higher idea of God.”
The official answered, “It is because you have only an idea of the greatness of God; but you do not know His love.”
That is the answer. In confirmation of this, St. Peter Eymard declares: “The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this there is nothing more but Heaven itself.”
Open my eyes and soften my heart to feel Your love and to love You in return, my humble and sweet, Jesus. St. Peter Julian Eymard, pray for us.