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

"How""THE SOUL. 265the Sacred Host detached itself from my fingers while Iwas yet at a good distance from him, and went and placeditself upon the tongue of that man.The Soul.beautiful a thing is a soul ! When our Lordshowed one to St. Catherine, it seemed to her so beautiful,*that she said, Lord,if I did not know that there is butone God, I should take this to be a god The ! image ofGod is reflected in a pure soul like the sun on the water.A pure soul is the admiration of the Three Persons of theBlessed Trinity. The Father contemplates His work:This is My creature ! The Son, the price of His blood.We estimate the worth of a possession by the priceithas cost us. The Holy Spirit dwells in it, as in Histemple.Again, we may know the value of our soulefforts which the devil makes to destroy it.by theHell arraysitself against it Heaven on its side. Oh, how greatitmust be !To form an idea of our own dignity we mustoften think of Heaven, Calvary, and hell.If we did butunderstand what it is to be children of God, we should beincapable of committing sin, we should be like angels uponearth. To be children of God oh, what an exalted dignity It ! is something grand to have a heart, little as itis, with which we can love God. What a shame is it toman to descend so low when God has placed him so high !When the angels had revolted against God, that God ofinfinite goodness, seeing that they could no longer enjoythe bliss for which they had been created, made man, andthis little world which we see, for the nourishment of hisbody. But his soul also requires nourishment ; and as