divine Lord has carried his obedience farther still, for he is content to obey not only his Eternal Father, but even man himself, and not only until death, but even unto the end of the world. He has made himself obedient, one may say, until the consummation of ages. King of heaven as he is, he comes down, nevertheless, out of obedience to man, and remains afterwards upon the altar, only, as it would seem, out of obedience to man. “ As for me,” he says by his Prophet, “ I make no resistance.” (Isai. 1. 5.) There he remains without any movement of his own; he allows himself to be placed wherever they may choose to place him, whether exposed to view in the ostensorium, or shut up in the ciborium; he lets himself be carried where they please to carry him, either through the street, or in the house; he allows himself to be given in communion to every one as they think fit to give him: to the just, or to the sinner. When he was living on the earth, as St. Luke tells us, he was obedient to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to St. Joseph, but in this Sacrament he obeys as many creatures as there are Priests on the earth. “ As for me, I make no resistance.”
O LISTEN, while I venture to address thee, most loving heart of my Jesus! Heart from which so many sacraments have issued, and especially this Sacrament of Love! Would that I could procure as much honour and glory for thee, as thou dost promote the honour and glory of thy Eternal Father by means of the Holy Sacrament in our churches! I know that on this altar thou dost love me with that same love which moved thee to sacrifice thy divine life for me in a sea of sorrows on the cross. Enlighten. O divine Heart! those who do not know thee, in
