Excellent post. This is the crucial center of the Church. The living presence of Christ in the tabernacle. We cannot seek him, directly speak to him, feel or touch him. But he is there in the brilliance of his cosmic presence. Indeed, it is just as well that we not see him since we’d be physically blinded by the brilliance of his radiance.
Atheists and agnostics who down through the ages have finally converted to the Catholic Church have come to accept this. And of course so have scores of nobel laureates, painters, sculptors, philosophers, scientists, writers, poets, and statesman and famous Anglican and Protestant converts, and converts from Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism.
This is why we must distinguish Catholics from Christians. In fact it not too much of a stretch to say that we don’t worship the same God. The God in the Eucharist is the God we Catholics adore and worship and all other brands of Christianity (35,000 and counting) do not.
HT to Steelfish for the ping!