That is why after Jesus had spent all his words he left us the Eucharist.

That is why after we have spent all our words we should celebrate the Eucharist.  When our own words, decisions and actions are inadequate to relieve the aching in our hearts we need the embrace of the mother, God.  This happens in the Eucharist.

It is a timeless ritual, an embrace.  Like love, it is something that we can never fully understand or explain.  But we need not understand it.  We can let the ritual do its work.  Ultimately we go to the Eucharist to let ourselves be held.

We live constantly at the limits of our own capacities, where our words fail us, where our resources are not enough and we feel acutely our dullness, our failure, our moral impotence, our bitterness and our distance from God and others.

We are constantly helpless, helpless to heal and helpless to celebrate.  In that fatigue and tension we need to abandon ourselves to the embrace, the Eucharist.

It is not important to understand all that transpires there, nor even that we should go to the Eucharist fully alert and enthusiastic – I doubt whether the apostles were that at the Last Supper.  It is only important that we enter the ritual.  In it God holds us to his heart.