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GENERAL CONVOCATION

OF ALL THE FAITHFUL TO THE LOVE AND ADORA- TION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR.

Ignem veni mittere in terra, et quid volo nisi ut

accendatur.

SOME of the holy fathers, in explaining the Scriptural account of how, at the beginning of the world, the Holy Spirit brooded on the face of the waters, tell us, that He did so, not only to render them productive, but to teach us that that Divine Spirit, who is love itself, by dwelling in a particular manner in created things, endowed them at the same time with divine love, so that all creation, if it be well considered, strongly urges us to love the Divine Goodness. This is what caused St. Bonaventura to say, (in Stim. div. amor.) that we were surrounded on every side by the flames of divine love. Is it not therefore most astonishing and