From a twelfth century author, name unknown:

"Their eyes were opened
   and they knew him  when he broke the bread."
By breaking understand the virtue of humility, by which Jesus
 -- even he who is the bread of life--
broke diminished, and emptied himself.
And by emptying himself he gave us knowledge of himself.

If you want to know him,
break yourself as he did.
because anyone who claims to abide in Christ ought to live as he lived.

Break yourself, then, by the labor of obedience,
        by the humiliation of repentance.
Bear in your body the marks of Jesus Christ
         by accepting the condition of a servant, not as someone superior.
And when you have emptied yourself,
         you too will know the Lord through the breaking of bread."

Sr. Joan Gripshover, OSB