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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

kinds of humiliations. O my God, my Sovereign ! alas, how is it possible for any one who knows Thee, to act in any other way ? The world does not understand these practices : but the world knows not God !

EIGHTH MOTIVE.

JESUS IS VERY POOR IN THE MOST HOLY

SACRAMENT.

Pauper sum ego. — I am poor. — (Psalm lxxxvii. j6.)

That voice, O my soul, which thou nearest, is the voice of the Holy Spirit. This ought to remove all doubt from our minds; it ought fully to convince us of an inconceivable but very certain truth, which the Divine Spirit teaches us by the mouth of the Royal Prophet, who, speaking in the person of our Blessed Lord, assures us that He is poor : Pauper sum ego. Let us admire this striking truth in the Divine Eucharist, where He, who is the Lord of all things, is exceeding poor, and in many places scarcely possesses a Church wherein to repose. Thou knowest, O Eternal Greatness! Thou knowest, O Worthy King of Paradise! how often we have found only Ciboriums of pewter, poor Tabernacles draped with a little piece of the most common stuff, and Chalices so mean, into which Thy Precious Blood is received, that it was painful to see them. A person only in moderate circumstances, would be ashamed to use such a cup at table, and we hear it said that there

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