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The A~postlcship of Prayer
poor souls who have gone before you into the next
world, and who will in gratitude become your intercessors
forever. You may keep away afflictions and
trials that may be now in store for you on account of
your lukewarmness. You will surely receive from
God more abundant spiritud and temporal blessings.
Says Father Rickaby, S. J., in "Ye Are Christ's":
"This devotion of the morning o$king rests on the
main and essential principles of Christianity; namely,
that in Christ we huve access to the Father (Eph. ii. 18):
that there is no salvation in any other, no other nume
unah heaven given to man, whereby we are to be saved
(Acts iv. 12); that this salvation was wrought out by
the death of Christ on the cross, who ntade peace through
the blood of His cross, blotted out the handwriting thd
was against us, and took it away, nailing it to the cross
(Col. i. 20; ii. 14); that this redeeming sacrifice and
death of our Saviour is continually shown forth and
reenacted in His own very body and blood, made
present at the coilsecration in Holy Mass (I COT. xi. 24;
Luke xxii. 19).
Many things Our Lord intends and wills only conditionally,
if men co-operate with Him. Thus He
does not intend to convert the Chinese, unless misr
sionaries go to China. Prayers are a sort of missionaries.
Many souls will be converted if they are well
prayed for, and not otherwise. But the most efficauous
prayer is that which goes up in closest union
with Christ crucified, pleading in sacrifice for us.
Christ crucified thus pleads in every Mass. In every
Mass, as the Church says, "the memory of His passion
is celebrated anew." I can not spend my day in hearing
Mass, traveling from altar to attar. It is not God's
purpose that I should do that. But the Morning
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