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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

are living. It is this which makes her weep inconsolably, knowing that God is so little loved. It is for this, that solitude has such attractions for her, that she may have leisure to sigh over such extreme misery. This produces in the soul an aversion to the world that knows not God, according to the witness of God Himself, and shows, by so many proofs, the world's unhappy state of darkness concerning its Creator, its Saviour, its Chief Good. O Lord! fulgura coruscationem : Thou who art the source of all light, send down from the Light inaccessible where Thou dwellest, some bright rays upon the children of men, to open their eyes and awaken them from their deplorable sleep.

It is on this subject, O Catholic soul ! that the least of creatures "writes these lines, crying out to you with the Apostle : " Hora est jam nos de somno surgere, nunc enim propior est nostra salus quam cum credidimus" It is time, it is time to awake from the sleep in which we were plunged, for our Divine Saviour is much nearer than we think. He is there concealed beneath the species of bread and wine, beholding from thence, as through the sacred lattices (as it is written in the Canticles), what our souls will do for Him. This Lover of souls has said that he who serves Him ought to follow Him, and that His servants ought to be where He is. Behold Him then on our Altars ; He is in our Tabernacles ; we should choose His Sacred Feet as our abode: there we must go with all possible

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