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Common mystic prayer. 

From Fr, Longenecker: 

“Everything seemed suspended for a moment. Was it a moment or was it an eternity? The crucifix before seemed luminous. Then as I gazed at the bread and the chalice they seemed to be one with the crucifix and they all took on a different dimension. It was like they opened up. A window or a door opened onto light. This makes it sound like what I experienced was somehow ethereal or ’spiritual.’ It was the opposite. Everything was far more concrete, far more solid and shared in a greater dimensionality than I can express, and the words came into my mind, “This is Reality.”" - Source

Father’s experience reminds me of St. Teresa Benedicta’s (Edith Stein) reaction after reading the Life of St. Teresa of Avila; “This is truth!”