The Eucharist is a veil, through which our bodily senses cannot pierce or get through. It is a veil, which separates heaven and earth and only the spirit illumined by faith can shine on the veil to see clearly the shadowed realities behind it.
When our bodies, when our flesh, becomes one with our spirit, that is, when all our longings and desires are united to that deep thirst of our souls for God's love we further yearn to see this veil ripped down so that the passively perceptible shadows of heaven dancing behind the veil become actively engaged by our whole person, body, soul, and mind.
The spiritual shadows veiled by the Eucharist are the images, or the image, of ourselves that was never lost by original sin, but once the veil is torn our likeness to God, which was lost by original sin, will be revealed, that is to say, our likeness to the body and blood of Jesus Christ, or our likeness to the Eucharist.
This means, as many have noted before, when we receive the Eucharist, we are becoming Eucharist, becoming 'like' Jesus Christ.
You become what you receive.
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