Grace can and does have a history.
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.