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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

my Beloved finds so little love in the hearts of you His creatures ?

Ah, my Sovereign Lord, it seems to me Thy love is so strong that I believe and cannot doubt that a soul who loves Thee, though it should possess all the goods, all the honours, and all the pleasures of the whole world —though it should possess the dominion of the Universe, would look upon them as nothing to have Thy love; would trample on crowns and sceptres; would burn a thousand worlds in sacrifice to the greatness of Thy love.

Such a soul has no attachment to bind her, no designs or wishes, holy though they may be, to occupy her heart ; her regret is, not at leaving self or creatures ; if she sighs, if she weeps, it is because she has nothing but herself to give as a sacrifice to love ; she would possess all to give all, and she is melted to tears because, though all created beings belonged to her, they would be nothing to offer to her Beloved. Compare yourself with those souls who love, and judge of your own state. Do you truly love God ?

ELEVENTH MOTIVE.

JESUS DOES ALL THINGS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.

Omnia operator. — All these things [one and the same spirit] worketh. — (1 Cor. xii. 11.)

St. Paul, that man who was instructed in Paradise itself, that great Apostle, says, in speaking of his