nothing like the sweetness of God.

Knowledge united to God fulfills every desire. And for the heart that receives it, it is altogether sweetness overflowing on to the earth. For there is nothing like the sweetness of God.

St Isaac of Ninevah, Ascetic Treatises, 38

Hunwicke

In other words, for classical Protestantism, the Eucharist is an acted word; it is a sermon dramatised; it is intended to instruct the witnesses and draw their heart to that saving faith which justifies. But for the Catholic, it is an opus operatum; an action which by the powerful and indefectible promise of Christ is objectively (not merely subjectively and in the heart of the believer) effective. So the celebrant is not in the business of moving or instucting or edifying or converting the viewer - if such may be the the by-products, even useful ones, of the action, they are not its intrinsic purpose. The priest's intrinsic purpose is to confect and offer the Body and Blood of the Redeemer in sacrifice for the sins of men. Failure to realise this is at the heart of what is wrong with so much modern and 'relevant' liturgy; and, to judge from my own reading and experience, the error is just as pervasive and deep-rooted inside the Roman Communion as it is outside it.

http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2008/01/gabbling-mass.html

places in our heart which do not exist yet

There are places in our heart which do not exist yet, and it is necessary for suffering to penetrate there in order that they may come into being.

Leon Bloy

Intellect; Will

Can the mind attain true Christian insight unless the will is comparably consecrated? Is built-in Christian mental orientation inseparably connected with moral obedience? Is knowledge of God acquired only on the further side of commitment? This, and not intellectual adequacy alone, may be the problem behind aberrant theology in our own day.

J. V. Langmead Casserley

Consummation; Being

Thus a certain consummation was reached and a meeting of extremes. And just as physical love is the centre of our life as men and women, so the Holy Mass is the centre of our life as Christians.... The Mass and the Eucharist are not only the centre of Christian worship, they are also the very centre of Christian merrymaking.... as Calvary was the necessary consummation of Christ's life, so the Eucharist is the necessary consummation of our life in Him.

Eric Gill, Autobiography

For ultimately (and what is 'ultimately' but 'firstly'? For ultimately doesn't mean last in time but that which remains after all extraneous and irrelevant matters have been eliminated) ... a good house is simply a house; a bad house hardly a house at all. And the less a thing is good the less it is anything. The more you deprive a thing of what is proper to it, the more you deprive it of being.

Eric Gill, Autobiography