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General Convocation of the Faithful

more surprising than we can express, that we find nothing but frozen hearts, and souls insensible to divine truth ?

But in order that men should have no excuse for their cold indifference, the Adorable Jesus has come to kindle new fire, by loading us with new graces, particularly in the institution of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, where His love bursts forth to such an excess that our hearts must indeed change their nature, or they must be quite consumed in the furnace of divine love. This is why Our Lord shewed to St Catherine of Sienna, one of His most faithful lovers, that the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar was a furnace of infinite love: and she plainly saw issue from It such torrents of sacred fire, the pure flames of which spread every where, that she wondered that the hearts of all creatures were not entirely transformed into love for so loving a God As for me, when I consider what my God does in His presence in the Most Holy Sacrament, when I reflect on the excess of love He has for men, and that I know He is left alone in all the churches of our country parishes, that He is so little known by the greater number of persons who live in them in a state of great ignorance ; when I see that He is so little loved, though He is so loving, I confess that I cannot understand it; I feel my heart and mind fail at sight of the