You really ought to read more if that's the impression you have.
Read the Diary of St. Faustina. Read the Divine Comedy. Julian of Norwich. The pious Catholic who goes up to receive the Holy Eucharist is positively *awash* in Love, almost in ecstasy thinking about what Our Savior did for us.
Try dealing with your average lay Catholic.
They don’t get it even is one person in the past did.