The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-30

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our part, effectively In Himself, indie
pendently Of mental conceptions of
Iours: and 30 the Incarnation, neces-
sarlly SO, is an absolute objective fact
IN history-not the fruit of mans i'm
manent craving, or vague and imag-
mary summarizing Of humanity's own
evolutions. The Eucharist concretes
land precises, In opposition to fatal err
rors Of modern days, the Jesus of his
tory, while at the same time through
the closeness with Him into which it
draws us, it renders faith in Him cas-
Ter to the human mind
The Eucharist in the act of faith
It wins from us fills the intellect with
the thought of Jesus, the soul with
the love of Jesus: and so illumined, so
1gnited, the soul dashes aside, as the
hazy mists and the cobweb threads
that they are, the quibbling arguments
which foes of the Incarnation scatter
across the bridge of time, sees Jesus
in the effulgence of His divine maj
esty as manifested in Palestine, and
with Peters outburst of enthusiasm
cries out in alteration: Lord, Thou
hast the words of eternal life" and
with Thomas, my Lord and My God"
And, then, Brethren, you recall the
Mount of the TRANSPORTATION where
the divinity of Jesus SO Revealed it.
self to the chosen three, that to them
faith was vision and feeling Even
so, in the Eucharist Jesus showers
upon the soul of the faithful disciple
such flood of light and grace that, as
at were, it sees and feels His presence,
so TRANSPORTED it is into the image
OF the divine visitor, SO replete it is
with the effulgence of His glory |
call to witness the saints of Holy
Church: I call to witness yourselves,
Brethren, whenever with purity of
soul and attentive faith, you assist at
the sacrifice of the mass and, in sweet
communion, take into your very life
blood the victim of the altar The Eu-
charist, to those who know it and love
it, is itself the proof of the divinity of
Jesus-God today, God yesterday.
The Eucharistic Congress.
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Word: hence our Eucharistic Con
gress.
We strengthen our personal faith in
the Incarnate Word by. throwing our
souls, with all the energy we are capa-
bic of, into the embrace of the Euchar-
istic Jesus. We strengthen the faith
of the children of Holy Church by
teaching them with more than usual
vividness the treasures of sweetness
and grace awaiting them at the foot
of the Eucharistic altar, by bidding
them open wide the portals of their
souls to draughts from it's supernal at
mosphere. And, no less, to the world
sages of hope and salvation. The
world is conscious of it's weakness and
woes: to all sides, save where Jesus
awaits it, it turns in quest of light
and life. Light and life, we must re
, peat to it, are not where go it's seek
ings: nor are they on earth or OF
earth: they come from the skies: hui
manity is saved only by the Almighty
God. God has come down to save the
world: only, to it's misfortune, it does
not know Him: "He was in the world
and the world knew Him not" To us
T Christian Brethren, to force upon the
world the knowledge of it's Saviour
And SO, Brethren, we cry out, however
, unwilling the world be to hear us:
Jesus lives: Jesus reigns: Jesus saves
I'm the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God and the Word
was God and the Word was
made flesh and dwelt among u.s." We
,, add: The Word was made flesh and
dwells among US"