My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

HE fruit we ought to derive from holy communion
75 consists in being transformed into the likeness of
Jesus Christ. We must endeavor to render ourselres
like Him throughout the whole course of our lives; to
be as He was, chaste, meek, humble, patient, obedient-
- RODRIGUEZ.
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HE body of the Lord is eaten, and the blood of the
z5 Lord is received in memory of Our Lord's obedience
unto death, that they who live may live no longer
to themselves, but to Him who died and rose again
for them. - ST. BASIL THE GREAT.
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63. -Ubrfet tn tbe Zucbarfet
sus knowing that His hour was come, that He
should pass out of this world to the Father, having
loved His own who were in the world, He loved them
tp the end. And so at the end, came the Last Supper
and the First Communion; for this jealous Lover could
not bear to leave us without a keepsake, a love token,
a perpetual remembratlcer, such as only God could
imagine it, as only God could give it.
- REV. hl. RUSSELL, S. J.
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T IS no strain of music, no tinsel of vestment, r,"
pomp of ceremonial which attracts us to our
churches, which holds us captive in them. No! For
us Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament offers the same
attractions, commands the same reverent attention,
elicits the same humble adoration, whether we assist
at His worship amid the poverty and simplicity ai
an Indian chapel, or assist at it amid the wealth and
grandeur of a stately cathedral; it is Christ in the
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