The cost is Everything but we receive Everything, too. We receive the life of Christ Himself, the “pearl of great price,” and we can receive it every day if we want. Our lives, for that reason, always have meaning and purpose. We are delivered from nearly all confusion about what the right thing to do is.

What if we could, quite literally, have His Jesus’ life in our hands every day, to use, and think with, and work with. Isn’t it possible that, over time, that would make us better, stronger, more powerful, more holy?

The disciples have seen Jesus do incredible works of power, they believe He has the words of eternal life, and now, when He says He is leaving, they don’t even want to know what the plan is?

If Jesus isn’t really present in the Eucharist, then hell is all there is.

Why isn’t exorcism a sacrament? Because the sacraments are stronger than exorcism.