August: The Blessed Sacrament and the Virtue of Diligence
by VP
Posted on Tuesday August 01, 2023 at 11:24AM in From the Past
The Most Blessed Sacrament is Our Lord Jesus Christ, both God and man, really, truly, and substantially present beneath the veil of the Eucharist.
Adore His Divinity, present in the Host. The Blessed Sacrament is God, the infinitely perfect Being, the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Sovereign Lord of all things.
Adore the holy Humanity of Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament; His body, His blood, His heart, His soul; be sure that He is really living, really present in His own person, and not in remembrance, or in symbol, but in reality.
Proclaim Him to be your God, your Savior, Your king, your end, and your all. Acknowledge yourself to be His creature, His subject, His servant. Before Him as Mary and Joseph did at Bethlehem, as the Angels do in heaven; make acts of faith in His presence, of submission to His authority, of abandonment to His will, Give yourself to Him; swear to be faithful to Him and to love Him forever.
The Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament By Albert Tesnière
Sloth is a disgust which makes us neglect our duty, it becomes deadly when grave obligations are neglected. Its children are hatred of spiritual things, despair, want of courage, torpidity and languor, wanderings in prayer, neglect of communion.
The opposite virtue is diligence.
The remedies are a consideration of the labors of Christ, of the brief evil for eternal reward, the shortness of life, the strictness of the judgment, and the terrors of hell, pious reading, prayer, and church going. Catholic Champion
The Mass is certainly a function the most excellent, the most holy, the most acceptable to God and useful to us, that can be imagined. And so, while it is going on, the angels assist in crowds with bare feet, with earnest eyes, with downcast brows, with great diligence, with incredible amazement and veneration. With what purity, attention, devotion, reverence, then, ought the priest to celebrate it? he should approach the sacred altar as Jesus Christ, assist there as an angel, minister there as a Saint, offer there the prayers of the people as a high-priest, interpose there for reconciliation between God and men as a mediator, and pray for himself as a simple human being. St. Lawrence Justinian