Dissertation on the Most August Sacrament of the Lord's Body and Blood

we should devote our zeal to the service of Him who deigns to invite us to so sacred and divine a banquet: by how much more rightful a claim [should we do so], if He sets that banquet before us every month, every week, or even every day? Therefore, let us depart from that table like lions breathing fire, made terrible to the devil, revolving in our minds our head, Christ the Lord, and the love which He showed toward us, as John Chrysostom John Chrysostom (c. 347–407 AD) was an influential Archbishop of Constantinople known for his eloquent preaching; "Chrysostom" literally means "golden-mouthed." says in his 61st Homily to the people of Antioch. Let antiquity boast of the most famous "Table of the Sun"—as Jerome St. Jerome (c. 347–420 AD), the translator of the Vulgate Bible. calls it—described by Herodotus The "Table of the Sun" was a legendary meadow in Ethiopia mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, where meat was said to appear miraculously every night., Solinus, and others, which was customarily spread in the past with such artistry that the Sun himself, whom they worshipped as a God, seemed to have laid it. Far more splendid and divine is the table which Eternal Wisdom In Christian theology, "Wisdom" (Sapientia) is often identified with the person of Christ., who is the true Sun of Justice, has set before us (as it is written in Proverbs 9), in which He has fashioned Himself into the most precious refreshment, so that He might illuminate our minds with His heavenly light, according to that verse: He will fill your soul with brightness (Isaiah 50 In the Vulgate Bible used by the author, this refers to Isaiah 58:11.), and this: Come to Him and be enlightened, and your faces shall not be put to shame (Psalm 35 Psalm 34 in modern numbering.). Nowhere is that saying of Ambrose St. Ambrose (c. 339–397 AD), the Bishop of Milan and a Doctor of the Church. more truly proven than in this mystery: God enlightens His Saints, and shines in the heart of the righteous (on Psalm 118, sermon 17); namely, the hearts of those who, with a simple eye of contemplation, gaze upon the divine beneficence and other perfections contained here, while that Sun of intelligence