Big smile here, because this is exactly what is supposed to happen, so I'm glad that you got to experience it.
When we receive the Eucharist, as Catholics, we are receiving the real, living body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ into ourselves, and thus we are joined with Christ, and also at the same time with our fellow Catholics into one cohesive, living and adoring body of worshipers.
If you want to find out more about the Eucharist and the Catholic Church, I would suggest that you ask around and find out who in that church parish teaches the course called RCIA.
That is a 9 month, 3 times a month course for people like yourself who are outside the church now, but who want to be inside, and to experience what it's like to be a real, active part of what you experienced at mass.
The Catholics who teach that course are well trained, and very eager to share with you what it is like to be a part of a living, active community where the learning can continue on for as long as you have a hunger to know more. RCIA is just the beginning of the journey that can take you beyond anything that you have experienced before with God.
On a personal note I went through RCIA about 4 years ago, and it was a real turning point in my life. I would NEVER want to go back to what I was before RCIA.
On the outside, I looked like I had everything together, but on the inside I was a total mess.
By the grace of God I landed up a total wreck of a human being on the steps of my parish just in time. I was more spiritually dead than alive, and it was the RCIA course that turned my whole life and spiritual being around.
Now 3 years later I am spiritually stronger, I can withstand more stress and strain than I ever could before, and I've never felt better or more spiritually secure in my whole life.
I hope this helps you.
