These are Excerpts of Maxims from this awesome Book "The Devout Soul".
1.The world is a scene, which quickly passes away.
2. All who live piously in Jesus Christ must suffer persecution.
3. To become a saint, it is necessary to esteem and practise what the world despises and shuns; to despise, and shun what the world esteems and practises.
On the Love of Jesus Christ for us, in having instituted the most Holy Eucharist as a compendium of all the works of his infinite goodness and mercy.
The Royal Psalmist, speaking prophetically of the Blessed Eucharist, says, that the Lord has summed up therein, and formed a compendium of the most wonderful and stupendous works that he has elsewhere worked in favor of those who love him. Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum, misericors et miserator Dominus, escam dedit timentibus se.
To he fully convinced of this truth, it suffices to revolve briefly in our mind the many wonders, which God has worked in our favor. See, O Devout Soul, the Lord extending his omnipotent arm over the hidden face of nothingness: ?
forth bursts the light at his simple nod? the vaulted heavens expand ? the earth appears ? the moon, stars, and planets shine. Behold, the fishes glide through the deep? the birds fly in the air ?
Who does not admire the great power of God, which by a single command draws forth so many stupendous works from the abyss of nothing ?
But greater still is that, which he repeatedly exerts throughout the day in the Sacrament of the Blessed Eucharist, in which, by an unheard of prodigy, he changes the substance of bread and wine into that of his own body and blood, for our food and drink.
1.The world is a scene, which quickly passes away.
2. All who live piously in Jesus Christ must suffer persecution.
3. To become a saint, it is necessary to esteem and practise what the world despises and shuns; to despise, and shun what the world esteems and practises.
On the Love of Jesus Christ for us, in having instituted the most Holy Eucharist as a compendium of all the works of his infinite goodness and mercy.
The Royal Psalmist, speaking prophetically of the Blessed Eucharist, says, that the Lord has summed up therein, and formed a compendium of the most wonderful and stupendous works that he has elsewhere worked in favor of those who love him. Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum, misericors et miserator Dominus, escam dedit timentibus se.
To he fully convinced of this truth, it suffices to revolve briefly in our mind the many wonders, which God has worked in our favor. See, O Devout Soul, the Lord extending his omnipotent arm over the hidden face of nothingness: ?
forth bursts the light at his simple nod? the vaulted heavens expand ? the earth appears ? the moon, stars, and planets shine. Behold, the fishes glide through the deep? the birds fly in the air ?
Who does not admire the great power of God, which by a single command draws forth so many stupendous works from the abyss of nothing ?
But greater still is that, which he repeatedly exerts throughout the day in the Sacrament of the Blessed Eucharist, in which, by an unheard of prodigy, he changes the substance of bread and wine into that of his own body and blood, for our food and drink.
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