of mankind should be wrought on the wood of the cross; that whence death came, thence life might arise; and that he who overcame by the tree, might also by the tree be overcome. Through Christ our Lord: by whom the Angels praise thy majesty, the dominations adore it, the powers tremble before it; the heavens and the heavenly virtues, and blessed seraphim, with common jubilee, glorify it. Together with whom we beseech thee, that we may be admitted to join our humble voices, saying: Holy, holy, holy, &c.
From the Sanctus to the Consecration:
JESUS Christ loves us infinitely more than we love ourselves. He has loved us to excess. u And they spoke of his decease that he should accomplish in Jerusalem.” ( Luke ix. 1.) And what greater excess than that he should die for his creatures 1 He loved us, even to an excess of love. “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.” ( John xiii. 1.) For after having loved us from eternity, so that every moment of it he thought of us, and loved each one of us — “ I have loved you with an eternal love ” — He has become man for love of us, and has chosen a painful life, and the death of the cross to save us. And now, “ His delight is to be with the children of men.” Heart created on purpose to love men, how is it possible thou receivest from them forgetfulness and insult? Give me grace, sweet Jesus, to love thee.
AFTER THE ELEVATION.
THE bell has rung. He is here, body and blood, Soul and Divinity. Jesus Christ is present! “ The heavens have dropped down dew from above, . and the clouds have rained the Just.” My Saviour, I,
