My soul is united to the soul of Christ in the priestly character impressed upon me and in the Mass His soul and my soul act together as closely and as inseparably as two rays of light shining together. That is why I am not aware of a foreign “Stranger Presence.” Rather it seems to me as if, without ceasing to be who I am, I had become Somebody else—as if I had been raised to a higher and much simpler and cleaner level of being.

