My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

122 Daily Attendame at Man.
wilt find that the love of God will wonderfuny inmeage
in thy heart, and that thou wilt become truly devout
and spiritual. - ST. MARY MAGDALEN OF PAZZI.
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PRAYER FOR UNION WITH JESUS CHRIST
MY JESUS! grant that Thou mayest be the object
0 of my thoughtsand afTections, the subject of my
conversations, the end of my actions, the companion of
my life, the companion of my death, and my reward
eternally in.Thy heavenly kingdom. Amen.
- REV. ALOYSIUS STURZO, S. J.
LL Catholics, unfortunately, do not regard this
Great Act, as we call it, with the same awe or
attention - and yet it should be approached much as
some of the old writers have put it. "If the scrifice,"
they tell us, "were to be celebrated but once since the
death of Our Saviour, it would be an event of such
tremendous significance as to excite the awe and reverence
of the whole world." And indeed we might conceive
for ourselves what would be our feelings if it were
announced for the first time that Our Saviour would
descend from heaven upon an altar, and that there and
then the sacrifice of Calvary would be renewed ! Beside
such an event all historical events would become tame
and insignificant. It would be next in interest only to
the original coming of Our Lord. Yet most Catholics,
from habit and familiarity, "Go lo Alass," asit is called,
in a languid, irresponsible fashion, for the most part
once in the week. How many look on it as some airy
[unction or formula - a qualification, as it were, for
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