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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

to those seated on thrones. The Bread of Angels, says the Church, is become the Bread of men ! O wonder ! O miracle ! The Lord of all things has given himself as food to the poor, to the slave, to the most abject persons in the world. Jesus, the Sovereign of the Universe, has no guards to keep off those who wish to approach His Divine Person ; all the avenues of the palaces of the God of Heaven are freely opened ; it costs nothing, no money is needed to have the honour of speaking to Him. Ineffable consolation ! Christian souls being so easily able to enjoy the Presence of Him, who makes the felicity of the Blessed, already partake, in some degree, of the joys of a blissful eternity. They find Paradise out of Paradise; earth is changed into heaven, and men have no great reason to envy the angels their happiness, seeing they possess Him who makes the height of angelic bliss.

Would to God that all the poor, all the afflicted, all those who are persecuted and forsaken, all who are held in contempt and who have had losses, would listen to these truths, and would remember the words of the Apostle : — Quomodo non cum illo omnia nobis donavit ! That the Eternal Father, in giving us his well-beloved Son, has given us all things.

Jesus is ours in the most Holy Sacrament ; He belongs to all who will receive Him ; but Jesus is God, therefore He is the Great and Supreme Good,