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Preface.

We may say, however, that those who have a holy habit of paying a daily visit to Our Lord Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, can easily find in this little work, subject for reading and meditation for every day in the month. Thus, the general convocation of all the faithful will serve for the first day ; the Motives for the eighteen following days, and the nine Practices, with the Conclusion, the Instruction for the Perpetual Adoration and Meditation on the Litanies of the Blessed Sacrament, will complete the thirty-one days. If required, there may be added to them, the hymns and prose of the Church, which are the most perfect compendium of the Catholic faith which that precious belief ought to produce in the hearts of all christians.

May it please our divine Saviour, who is really present, though hidden in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, that this little book, written for His sole glory, may help to excite in the hearts of all who read it, that love of God alone, which burnt in the heart of its pious author, Henri Marie Boudon. He died in 1702, aged 89 years.

DEDICATION.

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TO THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.

GREAT QUEEN OF HEAVEN in whom reigns divine love in the fulness of perfection ; holy Mother of fair love, who didst begin to love as soon as thou didst begin to live, and whose chaste and immaculate heart was, from the first moment of thy conception, more inflamed with the fire of divine love than the hearts of even all the Saints in the fulness of their perfection; behold me at thy feet, the feet of my kind Mother, and the sweet sovereign of my heart, to offer thee, as a thing that belongs to thee, this little work, written in honour of the love of thy Divine Son for man, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Thou knowest, O most divine Virgin, O most sweet Mary, that for a long time past, all my thoughts, all my words, all my actions, and every impulse of my soul are entirely dedicated to the honour and glory of God only ; desiring continually to worship in thee and during every moment