From St. Bonaventure’s The Journey of the Mind to God “ Chapter 7 :6If you should ask how these things come about, question grace, not instruction; desire, not intellect; the cry of prayer, not pursuit of study; the spouse, not the teacher; God, not man; darkness, not clarity; not light, but the wholly flaming fire which will bear you aloft to God with fullest unction and burning affection. This fire is God, and the furnace of this fire leadeth to Jerusalem; and Christ the man kindles it in the fervor of His burning Passion, which he alone truly perceives who says, "My soul rather chooseth hanging and my bones death" [Job 7:15]. He who chooses this death can see God because this is indubitably true: "Man shall not see me and live" [Exod. 33:20]. Let us then die and pass over into darkness; let us impose silence on cares, concupiscence, and phantasms; let us pass over with the crucified Christ from this world to the Father [John 13:1], so that when the Father is shown to us we may say with Philip, "It is enough for us" [John 14:8]; let us hear with Paul, "My grace is sufficient for thee" [II Cor. 12:9]; let us exult with David, saying, "For Thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away; Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion forever [Ps. 72, 26]. . . . Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say: So be it, so be it" [Ps. 105:48]. AMEN.
 
Let us spend some silent moments at Mass this week at the conclusion of the singing of “Sacred Silence” to ponder these words.  Let us cling to the Eucharistic Lord as ​He enters our hearts each time we celebrate Mass.  Let us listen to the voice of the Lord and follow where we are led!