Stripped of everything...

 "In His risen life on earth Christ often made Himself 

recognized only by the characteristic
of His unmistakable love, by showing His wounds, 

by His infinite courtesy, by the breaking of bread.
He would not allow the sensible beauty and dearness 

of His human personality, His familiar appearance, to 

hide the essential Self that He had come back to give.

 

Wholly consistent with this is Christ's return to us in the Host.

We know that in it He is wholly present:
body, blood, soul, and divinity. 
But all this is hidden; even His human appearance is hidden.

Because this is the way of absolute love, He insists 

on coming to us stripped of everything but Himself."

Caryll Houselander