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THE BOOK

OF

PERPETUAL ADORATION,

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FIRST TREATISE,

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FIRST MOTIVE.

JESUS IS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR.

Vere Dominus est in loco isto, et ego nesciebam. — Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. — (Gen. xxviii. 16.)

These words of the Patriarch Jacob do not mean that this holy man was ignorant of the truth known even to infidels, that God, by His immensity, fills heaven and earth; but (says the holy Bishop of Geneva, St. Francis of Sales) by these words, "the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not," he means that he did not realize His presence as it deserved.

O Catholic soul ! I have no doubt you know that the God of all greatness is hidden under the appearance of bread and wine; that He reposes lovingly in our Ciboriums; and, by an excess of immense mercy, He remains in our Tabernacles. He, who is truth, has said it, not by my mouth,