So...let me ask you a question.
When the bread is taken away, do you lose contact with Jesus?
In other words, when praying to that Eucharistic bread, do you feel closer than when praying by yourself, at home?
Why? Does Jesus vanish when the Eucharistic bread is removed? If He does vanish, then what does that do to His statement, “Lo, I am with you always”?
He said “Always” not just when the Eucharistic bread is in place in front of you.
That’s why it seems so silly to me to see people praying towards a piece of bread, Jesus is everywhere, “Neither death, nor life, nor dark...can keep [Jesus] from us.”
NOTHING keeps Jesus from us, so...if He is everywhere, sees us at all times, hears us at all times, why would His presence be so much more powerful when there’s a piece of bread in front of you than when there is no piece of bread in front of you?
Ed
In some from Jesus is present always, as he is omnipresent. However, it pleased God to give us a human, visible Jesus and not a disembodied divine presence through the Incarnation, and it likewise pleased Jesus to give us the Eucharist at the Last Supper in the form of bread and wine, and not a disembodied intellectual knowledge of His Sacrifice and Resurrection.
It is by all means good to pray to Jesus at all times and not only at Mass or at Eucharistic Adoration. Those are particular ways to worship God, but there are others. Good works, for example, are an often neglected form of worship.
“In other words, when praying to that Eucharistic bread, do you feel closer than when praying by yourself, at home?”
Again, Ed, we don’t pray to bread. We are praying to Christ who has taken the form of bread at that moment.
And there’s a really good reason why we do it and why it makes us feel even closer to Christ: because He told us to do it this way. He told us He wants it this way, whether we can comprehend the miracle or not. He asked us to do this, this way, in remembrance of Him. Christ Himself made it a much more powerful form of His presence.
Nothing keeps us from Jesus, but there are times a Christian is more alight with the Spirit than others. The Eucharist is one of those times. Ingesting Christ’s Body and Blood is the closest union we can have with Him until we see Him in heaven. He gave us this method to help us until that day. I hope this helps you understand.