partake of this wheat of the elect, and of this wine producing virgins, I may be entirely changed in heart and mind. The inveteracy of no disease can resist thy all-healing power; if thou commandest, all maladies must obey. Say then to my soul, as thou didst to the leper, “ Volo: mundare ” “ Be thou made clean” (Matt. viii. 3.) That word will restore me to health; for as thy word alone created me, so thy word can again repair me. But in mercy root out self-love from my soul, it being the cause of all my evils. I know thou art more anxious to grant my petitions, than I am to obtain them. Do then what thou so much desirest. Grant me, dear Jesus, thy love, and a true zeal for thy glory. Shew me what thou desirest of me, and I will willingly pass the remainder of my life in accomplishing it. But if thou thinkest fit to punish me for my sins, grant that it may be so as to correct, and not to harden me; to bring me to thee, and not to drive me from thee.
A METHOD OF
Hearing Mass before Communion.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MASS TO THE GLORIA IN EXCELSIS.
DIVINE Jesus, Mediator of the New Testament, who didst ascend into heaven, to appear in the presence of God for us (Heb . ix. 24), yet daily descendest on our altars to renew that sacrifice by which we were all redeemed, mercifully penetrate my heart with a just sense of the happiness and the advantage of assisting at a sacrifice by which I can abundantly satisfy the justice of God, honour his
