baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?" (Luke xii. 49, 50).
May they emulate the self-sacrificing zeal of that great apostle, who wrote to the colossians from his prison in Rome: "I, Paul, . . . now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for His body — which is the Church" (Col. i. 1, 24) May their watchword be "Omnia pro Te, Cor Jesu!" and again, "Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy kingdom come!"
May Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament deign to take this work under the mantle of her protection, in order that our feeble effort may serve to magnify the hidden God of our altars.
"Behold the bread of angels, sent
For pilgrims in their banishment,
The bread for God's true children meant."
"Come then, Good Shepherd, bread divine,
Still show to us Thy mercy sign;
Oh, feed us still — still keep us Thine:
So may we see Thy glories shine
In fields of immortality."
"O Thou, the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our present food, our future rest,
Come, make us each Thy chosen guest,
Coheirs of Thine, and comrades blest,
With saints whose dwelling is with Thee."
— Annus Sanctus.
As we began, so we conclude this Introduction with an indulgenced ejaculation which we commend for daily use to all fervent adorers of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus: May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament
