His sacred Heart and pierced hands will shower down graces and blessings upon you and your families.
"In the second place, take pleasure in bringing your tribute of money or material and in working for the service of the Church and the altar, deeming it an honor to contribute to the splendor of Catholic worship which is entirely centered in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.
"This is what you have already done in providing the beautiful objects we admire in this exhibition, and it is what you will continue to do each year. No one ever impoverished himself by being generous to Jesus Christ On the contrary He will render to you a hundredfold in this life for your gifts and sacrifices, until He rewards you in the life everlasting."
We dedicate the Blessed Sacrament Book to our associates of the Tabernacle Society and to the members of all kindred Eucharistic confraternities. May they find in it some balm of Gilead — coram Sanctissimo. They have heard and heeded the plaintive cry of the Good Shepherd: " Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear My voice and open to Me the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me" (Apoc. iii. 20). They have verified the words of the royal singer:
"O taste and see that the
Lord is sweet:
"Blessed is the man that
hopeth in Him" —
(Ps. xxxiii. 9.)
May they be imbued more and more with the spirit of Christ, Who offered Himself a holocaust for the salvation of mankind and Who in anticipation of His sacrifice exclaimed:
"I am come to cast fire on the earth, and what will I but that it be kindled? And I have a
