It is a re-enactment.  When the host is elevated, pray "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?".  When the chalice is elevated, pray "I thirst." and you have your re-enactment in its essential parts.  If you call to mind before this occurs that Jesus had just told his mother, in so many words, "I am dead to you, forget what you told me about my divine nativity" and the same to his disciple (not, baptize the world in my name) then you will get the full experience.  It will become more than a magic show.