2K 23, 4

Ecl 11, 7

Jn 5, 35

1 T5, 5

Ac 11, 26

2 C 13, 5 He 2, 11 ⚫. He 3, 14 Ep 5, 30

1 Jn 5, 1
1 Jn 3, 10
175,5
1 75,5

Ga 4,28

1 Jn 3, 1 Ga 4, 5

Ep 4, 24 2 Pt 1, 4

He 3,1

that you may be the children
of Light.

day: we are not of the night

nor of darkness.

[He shall be] as the light| I the Lord have called Is 42, 6-7 of the morning when the sun thee in justice, and taken riseth, shining in the morn- thee by the hand, and pre ing without clouds. served thee. And I have The light is sweet, and it given thee for a covenant of is delightful for the eyes to the people, for a light of the see the sun. Gentiles.-That thou mightHe was a burning and a est open the eyes of the shining light, and you were blind, and bring forth the willing for a time to rejoice prisoner out of prison, and in his light. them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. God is Light.

You are all the children of
Light, and children of the

8.-NAMES AND TITLES

1. Christians.
2. Christ-bearers.

3. Brethren of Christ.
4. Partakers of Christ.
5. Members of the Body
of Christ.

6. The Born of God.
7. Children of God.

8. Children of Light.
9. Children of

Day.

the

10. Children of Promise.
11. Sons of God.

12. Adopted Sons of
God.

13. The New Man.
11. Partakers of the
Divine Nature.

15. Partakers of a Hea-
venly Vocation.

16. Heirs of Life Ever-
lasting.

1 Pt3, 22

Ac 9, 32

17. Saints.

9.

Ps 8, 1-10

19. Domestics of God.
20. Living Stones.
21. A New Creature.
22. A Holy Priesthood.
23. A Chosen Generation.
24. A Kingly Priesthood.
25. A Holy Nation.
26. A Purchased People.
27. A Spiritual House.
28. The Habitation of
God.

29. The Temple of God.
30. The Temple of the
Holy Ghost.

31. The Temple of the
Living God.

32. My Sons and Daugh-
ters, saith the Lord
Almighty.

33. Children of the King-
dom.

-PSALMS SAID IN THE BAPTISM OF ADULTS.*

I.

clevated above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of infants

O Lord our Lord, how
admirable is Thy Name in and of sucklings Thou hast
the whole earth!
perfected praise, because of
For Thy magnificence is Thy. enemies, that Thou

* See Rituale Romanum."

1 Pt 2,9

1 Pt 2, 9

1 Pt 2, 9

1 Pt 2,9

1 Pt 2, 5

Ep 2, 22

1 C 3, 17

1 C6, 19

2 C6, 16

2C6, 18

P: 28, 1

10

mayst destroy the enemy and
the avenger.

For I will behold Thy hea-
vens, the works of Thy fingers:
the moon and the stars which
Thou hast founded.

and as the beloved son of
unicorns.

The voice of the Lord
divideth the flame of fire:

The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert; and the Lord shall shake the desert

What is man that Thou art
mindful of him? or the son of Cades.

of man that Thou visitest The voice of the Lord
him ?
prepareth the stags: and He
Thou hast made him a will discover the thick woods:
little less than the Angels, and in His Temple all shall
Thou hast crowned him with

glory and honour :

speak His Glory.

The Lord maketh the

And hast set him over the flood to dwell: and the

works of Thy hands.

Lord shall sit King for ever.

Lord will give

Thou hast subjected all The
things under his feet, all strength to His people: the
sheep and oxen : moreover Lord will bless His people
the beasts also of the fields. with peace.

III.

The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that As the hart panteth after Ps 41, 1pass through the paths of the the fountains of water: so my soul panteth after Thee,

sea.

O Lord our Lord, how O God.
admirable is Thy Name in all
the earth!

II.

Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring

rams.

My soul hath thirsted after the strong Living God; when shall I come and appear before the Face of God?

My tears have been my
of bread day and night, whilst
it is said to me daily: Where
Bring to the Lord glory is thy God?
and honour: bring to the These things I remembered
Lord glory to His Name: and poured out my soul in
adore ye the Lord in His me: for I shall go over into
Holy Court.
the place of the Wonderful
The voice of the Lord is Tabernacle, even to the
upon the waters: the God of House of God: with the
Majesty hath thundered, voice of joy and praise; the
the Lord upon many waters. noise of one feasting.
The voice of the Lord is in Why art thou sad, O my
power; the voice of the Lord soul? and why dost thou
in magnificence.
trouble me? Hope in God,

The voice of the Lord for I will still give praise
breaketh the cedars: yea, the to Him: the salvation of my
Lord shall break the cedars countenance,

of Libanus.

And my God. My soul And shall reduce them to is troubled within myself; pieces, as a calf of Libanus, therefore will

remem

12

ber Thee from the land and why go I mourning,
of Jordan and Hermoniim, whilst my enemy afflicteth
from the little hill.
me ?

Deep calleth on deep, at Whilst my bones are
the noise of Thy flood-gates. broken, my enemies who
All Thy heights and Thy trouble me have reproached
billows have passed over me. Whilst they say to me
day by day: Where is thy

me.

In the day time the Lord God?
hath commanded His mercy; Why art thou cast down,
and a canticle to Him in the O my soul? and why
night. With me is prayer to dost thou disquiet
me?
the God of my life,
Hope thou in God, for I
I will say to God: Thou will still give praise to Him;
Why the salvation of my counten-
me?ance, and my God.

art My Support.

hast Thou forgotten

10.-SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION.

FOR RECEIVING IT.

DISPOSITIONS

When the Apostles, who | Spirit of promise.

Ac 8, 1417

were in Jerusalem, had I will pour out of My
heard that Samaria had Spirit upon all flesh.
received the Word of God; This He said of the Spirit
they sent unto them Peter which they should receive
and John.-Who when they who believed in Him.
were come, prayed for them Be you perfect as also your Mt 5, 48
that they might receive the Heavenly Father is perfect.

Ac 2, 17

Jn 7, 39

Ac 19, 6

14, 16

2 C 1, 21*22

Ep 1, 13

Holy Ghost.-For He was not Who shall know Thy W9, 17
yet come upon any of them: thought, except Thou give
but they were only baptised wisdom, and send Thy Holy
in the Name of the Lord Spirit from above ?

Jesus.-Then they laid their Your Father from Heaven Lu 11, 13
hands upon them, and they will give the Good Spirit to
received the Holy Ghost.

them that ask Him.

When Paul had imposed] The Holy Spirit of wis-
his hands on them, the Holy dom will not enter into a
Ghost came upon them. malicious soul, nor dwell in
I will ask the Father, and a body subject to sins.
He shall give you another
Paraclete, that He may abide
with you for ever.

He that confirmeth us anointed thee with the oil of
with you in Christ, and that gladness.
hath anointed us, is God,

W1, 4

Thou hast anointed my

Ps 22, 5

head with oil.

God, thy God hath

Ps44, 8

THE HOLY EUCHARIST.

OUR Blessed Lord said to His Disciples in His discourse after the Last Supper, "As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you.' "But the Father loves His Only Begotten Son with an infinite love; can Jesus thus love us? Yet we may not question; we may not ask for proof; He, the Eternal Truth, has said it. Nevertheless we have a proof, and a proof which will remain till the end of time, for, just before speaking these ever-memorable words, Jesus had instituted the adorable Sacrament of the Altar.

Love does much, gives much, suffers much. If, then, the love be infinite there will be infinite works, infinite gifts, and infinite sufferings. But in the ever Blessed Sacrament of the Altar the works of Jesus truly present there are infinite, His gifts are infinite, His sufferings are infinite.

(1) His works are infinite. He does there what God alone can do: He works miracles. The accidents of bread and wine remain without the subjects on which they naturally depend; a human body is there without dimension, weight, or mass; it is multiplied indefinitely without losing its unity. These and many other miracles are worked by the few words of Consecration.

But, after all, it is a small thing for the great God to suspend, and change, and overcome the laws of Nature. But what if He overcome Himself? This,

John 15, 9

too, Jesus does in the Holy Sacrament. If, in the words of the Apostle, " He emptied Himself," when He came in "the form of a servant," how much more when He comes under the appearance of bread? During His life on earth Jesus was "the comeliest of the sons of men," but during the days of His bitter Passion He was 66 as a worm and no man ;" and the Blessed Eucharist is a Memorial of all the ignominy of the Passion.

Dear Lord, Thou hast worked many miracles in this Adorable Sacrament. Work yet one more, the most difficult of all. Bend our stubborn wills, warm our cold hearts, take away from us our hearts of stone" and give us "hearts of flesh," that we may never cease to love Thee, Who hast emptied Thyself of all Thy greatness and Thy glory for love of us.

(2) His gifts are infinite. The Incarnation and Redemption were indeed infinite gifts of God to man; but these were gifts of God the Father. "God so loved the world that He gave His Only-Begotten Son." God the Son also would give us an infinite gift, so He gave us the Blessed Eucharist; and, speaking in our poor human language, the gift of the Son was the greater gift. The Redemption was necessary; what salvation was there for man without it? But the Blessed Eucharist is the offering of the superabundant love of the Son. The Incarnation gave us the Humanity of our Lord for a time. But the Blessed Eucharist gives that Sacred Humanity to us till the last day of the world. Speaking of this Great Gift, St. Augustine says: "I dare to say that God, though He be omnipotent, could not give us more; though He be all wise, knows not how to give more; though He be all rich, has not more to give."

Such is the Gift of Jesus in the Blessed Sacramen. And what does He ask in return? Body for Body, soul for Soul, heart for Heart; that, as He gives Himself to us entirely and without reserve, we should so give ourselves to Him. He lets nothing stand between Him and us; neither the laws of Nature, nor His own dignity. Let us in our turn