My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom! My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

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422 Holy Communion bread shall live forever" (John vii. 59). Now from this comparison of the food of angels with bread and with the manna, it was easily to be understood by His discipka that, as the body is daily nourished with bread, and as the Hebrews were daily nourished with manna in the desert, so the Christian soul might daily partake of this heavenly Bread and he refreshed thereby. Moreover, whereas, in the Lord's Prayer, vie are hidden to ask for "our daily bread," the holy Fathers of the Church all but unanimously teach that by these words must be understood not so much that material bread which is the support of the body, as the eucharistic Bread which ought to be our daily food. Moreover, the desire of Jesus Christ and of the Church that all the faithful should daily approach the sacred Banquet is directed chiefly to this end, that the faithful, being united to God by means of the sacrament, may thence derive strength to resist their sensual passions, to cleanse themselves from the stains of daily faults, and to avoid these graver sins to which human frailty is liable; so that its primary purpose is not that the honor and reverence due to Our Lord may be safeguarded, or that the sacrament may serve as a rewartl of virtue bestowed on the recipients (St. Augustine, Serm. 57 in Matt., de Orat. Dom. n. 7). Hence the holy Council of Trent calls the Eucharist "the antidote whereby we are delivered from daily faults and preserved from deadly sins " (Sess xiii c. 11). SWEET Jesus, Who didst come into the world to 0 give to all souls the life of Thy grace, and Who, to preserve and nourish in them this life, hast wished to be their daily food and the daily remedy of their daily weakness, we humbly supplicate Thee, by Thy Private Use Only

Another Exercise fm Commzlnion 423 Heart so inflamed with love for us, to shed upon all souls Thy divine Spirit, that they who, unhappily, are in mortal sin may be converted to Thee and recover the life of grace that they have lost, and that they who, by Thy help, already live this divine life, may devoutly approach Thy Holy Table every day that they can; so that by means of daily communion, receiving daily the antidote of their daily venial sins, and feeding daily the life of Thy grace in their soul, and thus purifying them selves always more and more, they may, at last, amve at the possession of the life of beatitude with Thee! Amen. Indulgence of 300 days, every day. - Pius X More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com

Ano<strong>the</strong>r Exercise fm Commzlnion 423<br />

Heart so inflamed with love for us, to shed upon all<br />

souls Thy divine Spirit, that <strong>the</strong>y who, unhappily, are<br />

in mortal sin may be converted to Thee and recover <strong>the</strong><br />

life of grace that <strong>the</strong>y have lost, and that <strong>the</strong>y who, by<br />

Thy help, already live this divine life, may devoutly<br />

approach Thy Holy Table every day that <strong>the</strong>y can; so<br />

that by means of daily communion, receiving daily <strong>the</strong><br />

antidote of <strong>the</strong>ir daily venial sins, and feeding daily <strong>the</strong><br />

life of Thy grace in <strong>the</strong>ir soul, and thus purifying <strong>the</strong>m<br />

selves always more and more, <strong>the</strong>y may, at last, amve<br />

at <strong>the</strong> possession of <strong>the</strong> life of beatitude with Thee!<br />

Amen.<br />

Indulgence of 300 days, every day. - Pius X<br />

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