the streets during the night, from one tribunal to another, by the lowest rabble. Reflect what indignities He must have suffered, as He passed along, from all kinds of people; even from those who had received benefits from Him. What a spectacle was presented to heaven when the Lord of angels was thus outraged! Condole, admire, give thanks, and imitate.
SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT.
Christ the Transfiguration of your Soul.
"The Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt be changed into another man." (i Kings x. 6.)
I. Christ took three of His Apostles to a high mountain, " and was transfigured before them." (Matt. xvii. 2.) The same will be produced in due proportion in your soul, by your reception of the Eucharist, if you oppose no impediment to His holy grace. The Eucharist, as the Angelical Doctor observes, in a certain manner makes us the same with Christ. And St. Augustine introduces Christ addressing the faithful in these words: "I am the food of the advanced; grow, and you shall feed on Me; but in such a manner that you shall not change Me into yourself, but you shall be changed into Me."
II. What an inestimable dignity it is, and what a superior benefit for man to be transformed into God, and to be " made conformable to the image of His Son"! (Rom. viii. 29.) Satan tempted Eve with this idea: " You shall be as gods." (Gen. iii. 5.) But our first parents were deluded. By the Eucharist, and the grace attached to it, we become united to God, and in some respect partakers of the divine nature, "and even incorporated and of the same blood with Christ," as St. Cyprian energetically
