'‘His [Christ’s] hunger is great without measure. He consumes us thoroughly, for he is a voracious glutton and has bulimy. He consumes the marrow out of our bones. Yet we grant it him willingly. And the more we grant it him, the better we taste to him. And no matter how much he consumes of us, he cannot be satisfied, for he has bulimy and his hunger is without measure. And even though we are poor, he heeds that not, for he does not want to leave anything for us. First he prepares his food and burns up in love all our sins and our failings. And then, when we have been purified and roasted in love, he gapes like the vulture who wants to devour it all… If we could see the voracious lust Christ has for our blessedness, we would not be able to restrain ourselves from flying into his throat. Even though Jesus consumes us altogether in him, he gives us himself for this, and he gives us spiritual hunger and thirst to savour him with eternal relish. He gives us his body as food for our spiritual hunger and our heartfelt love. And if, within us, we eat and consume it with inner devotion, then his glorious hot blood flows from his body into our nature and into all our veins… Behold, thus shall we always eat and be eaten, and by loving, rise up and come down, and this is our life in eternity''.
- Autumntide of the Middle Ages
