of eternal bliss not to desire it so ardently as to be willing to resign our life for its attainment. We should also be prepared to make the exchange soon, for what we really desire we are anxious to possess.
AFFECTIONS.
MY God, I firmly believe all that thou hast revealed concerning that blissful eternity where thy servants enter into thy joys, and possess the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world. Hasten the happy day when the joyful tidings shall be brought to me, that I must go into the house of the Lord, where God dwells, and where I shall possess the liberty and freedom of his children. Welcome be the hour which will unite me to my heavenly Father’s embraces. What have I to fear under the shelter of that mercy which has been ensured to me by a Saviour’s blood, first poured out upon the cross, and now again mystically shed for me on this altar. O Lord! do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: “ For it is better for me to die, than to live” (Tob. iii. 6.)
At the Elevation.
CONSIDERATION.
ADORE, with the greatest respect, Jesus Christ elevated in the sacred host. Reflect that it is only through the all-atoning merits of his death that you can hope for and lay claim to eternal life. Look on him elevated on the cross where he negociates your salvation. Beg that he will model your death on his by making you partake of his interior dispositions.
