He was in the world, loved them to the end:" "that He might never be absent from His own, gave us, by an inexplicable counsel of His wisdom, a pledge of His love above the order and conditions of nature"[1]—that is, His own perpetual Presence veiled from sight. When the Archangel Raphael departed from Tobias and his son so that they could see him no more, they lay "for three hours prostrate on their faces."[2] What ought to be our thanksgiving after Mass?
If I do not speak of Communion it is because I need not. Every priest knows what no words could tell. We cannot make colour or sweetness visible or sensible to the intelligence alone. Sight and taste only can know. Therefore the Holy Ghost says, "Taste and see that the Lord is sweet."[3] We must taste first and see afterwards; but it is by an internal sight which needs no light, and has no limits of sense. In every Communion we are made flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone; and if our hearts are pure we are made also heart of His Heart, mind of His mind, will of His will, spirit of His spirit. We are not straitened in Him, but in ourselves. If our hearts were prepared as they might and
