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When we have received our Lord and have him in our body, let us not then let him be alone. Let us not go out and be busy about other things and think no more about him. Anyone who would serve a guest this way is doing him little good.
But let all our attention be on him. Let us speak to him through devout prayer and converse with him through devout meditation. Let us say with the prophet, “Let me hear what God the Lord will speak” (Psalm 85:8).
Surely, if we set aside all other things and attend to the Lord, he will certainly, by inspirations, speak such things to us within us as will bring great spiritual comfort and profit to our soul. With Martha, therefore, let us see to it that all our outward activity is directed to him—to giving a kindly welcome to him and, for his sake, to his companions, that is, poor people. The Lord regards every one of them not only as his disciples but as his very self. For he says: “As you did it to one of the least…
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