Let me fix it for you.
“Realization set in that, every single time I was at Mass, I was in the presence of CHRIST and I could feel the yearning for CHRIST wanting for me to be closer. There was no other place I would rather be”!
Yes, the author is clearly saying “Christ” but, as a writer, he was looking for a more, I guess, “literary” way of saying it. Writers frequently do it.