I just saw an IHOP commercial and the announcer said this:
“THEY SAY, YOU EAT WITH YOUR EYES FIRST.”
Yes!
When it comes to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, true Catholics, or Catholics who get it, usually more traditional in nature, understand that adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that is, looking and longing for our Lord at the consecrations and outside of Mass is a form of eating, because as they say, “you eat with your eyes first.”
When it comes to the Sacrificial Banquet, using your eyes and mouth to eat the Sacrificial Meal are not opposed to the other, both are eating.
For those with any kind of impediment to receiving Holy Communion in a physical way, spiritual or physical (like an allergy, physical or spiritual) they can receive with their eyes.
Because, as they say, you eat with your eyes first!
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As an Eastern Catholic, I would also argue that both the aesthetic of the church temple and the rubrics governing the celebration of Divine Liturgy greatly assists believers with this notion as well.
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