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Show Saintly Sayings. If our ' communions are almost 'useless 'use-less and without fruit, I venture to say it is only for. want of preparation; for if we prepare ourselves for them as we , ought, we should soon be holy. The reason of it is that "the causes act always al-ways - according to the . disposition of the subject upon which they operate, inus the Body of Jesus produces different dif-ferent effects, because it does not find the same disposition everywhere If you prepare yourself little, it will produce pro-duce little; if you bring much preparation, prepara-tion, for it, it will produce much. The (larger the vessels are the more water they receive from the fountain; nay, " even more at a single time than a shell would receive in. a hundred. So it is ; with this source and fountain of graces. "Comedite amice et bibite carissemi." The. more-loving you are, the better preparation you will make and the greater will be ycur capacity for receiving. re-ceiving. Lallemant. What can one imagine more merciful than to hear the Father say to the 1 sinner who has not wherewith to ran- !som himself, "Behold my only Son, give him to me for thyself"; and the j Son adds, "Behold, here am I; ransom j thyself"? St. Anselm. |