ACT OF FAITH.
O JESUS ! the truth and the life, with firm faith, I believe that this admirable Sacrament contains in very deed thy divinity with all thy power, wisdom, and infinite goodness, thy most sacred humanity with all its perfections and sanctity, thy soul with all its Lowers, thy true and loving body, entire and glorious. believe thy whole self to be contained in each Host, and in the smallest portion thereof. I believe all this because thou, who art the sovereign and supreme truth, hast said: “ This is my Body.” I believe in this mystery, O my Saviour! with humility and simplicity since thou hast revealed it to us, and by thy Church hast proposed it to our belief. I hold that faith which the holy Fathers and Doctors of thy Church have held and taught for more than eighteen hundred years. Therefore, though the testimony of my senses is wanting, though heretics deny thy clear and express teaching, I nevertheless believe in the infallible words, O Jesus ! which thou hast spoken, who canst neither deceive nor be deceived, since thou art the eternal wisdom of the Father, and the fountain of all truth.
“ I believe all the Son of God has spoken, Than Truth’s own word there is no truer token.”
ACT OF REVERENCE.
IF I consider thy majesty and omnipotence, O Lord, I must fear and tremble. Was not Ozias suddenly struck dead for touching the Ark of the Covenant, which was but a figure of the Holy Eucharist, and shall I dare to touch with my impure lips thy sacred Body, the living and all-holy ark? The Israelites, struck with terror, dared not approach the smoking mountain of Sinai to obtain the Law, and shall I, a sinner, presume to ascend to the
