Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

""We"Two264 THE CD KB OFBecause our Lord does not show Himself in all HisMajesty in the Blessed Sacrament, you remain in Hispresence without reverence. Yet it is He Himself. Heis in the midst of you. Like that good Bishop who washere the other day ; every body was pushing againsthim. Oh, if they had but known it was a Bishop !give our youth to the devil, and the dregs ofour life to the good God, who is so good that He contentsHimself even with this. Happily, all do not act in thisway. There is a young lady, of one of the first familiesin France, who left this place to-day. She is hardly threeand-twentyshe : is rich, very rich. She has offered herself as a victim to the good God for the expiation of sinsand the conversion of sinners. She wears a girdle garnished with points of iron ;she mortifies herself in athousand ways, of which her parents know nothing.Sheis as pale as a sheet of paper. Hers is a beautiful soul,as pleasing to God as any now on earth ; it is such soulsas this which keep the world from perishing.Protestant ministers came here the other day,who disbelieved our Lord s real presence in the BlessedSacrament. I said to them, Do * yea believe it coulddetach itself, and, of its own accord, place itself uponthe tongue of a person who was approaching to receive*it ? No. Then it is not bread. A man had doubtsabout the real presence. He said to himself, What do weknow about it ? It is not certain. What is the Consecration ? What passes upon the Altar at that time ? Buthe desired to believe, and he prayed to the Blessed Virginto obtain the gift of faith for him. Now listen well t:>what I am going to tell you. I do not say that it happenedsomewhere, but I say that ithappened to me : whenthat man presented himself to receive Holy