substantially equal to the glory of His Father. Learn to detest that pride, which prompts ignorant man to ascend to heaven, and to scan the power and works of the Divinity.
II. This only begotten Son of God loved the world to such a degree, that He surrendered His life to redeem it " For us men," says the Church in the Nicene Creed, " and for our salvation, He descended from heaven, and wa£ made man." " God became man," writes St. Augustine, that we might " become God," and the eloquent St. Leoremarks, Christ was made the Son of Man, that we might be made the sons of God." O ineffable and incomprehensible mystery!
III. How are you to requite so much love? You are certainly bound to reverence His Divine person with the most tender devotion and respect. Love that sacred: humanity, which the Son of God assumed, and which was nailed to the cross for your sake. Say with the devout St. Bernard, " The more vile this Son of God' has become for my sake, by so much the more is He dear ta me." Do not alienate His affections by sinning against Him. Though Jesus Christ be infinitely good and infinitely merciful, He is still infinitely just.
WEDNESDAY.
The Third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
I. The Holy Ghost as the third person of the Holy Trinity proceeds from the Father and the Son, but is coeternal and consubstantial with them both, of equal power and wisdom and majesty. For in the language of the Church, " we adore a distinction of persons and unity in the essence and an equality in the majesty."
