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 give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said to them : Amen, amen, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. (Jo. vi. 53, 54.)— Regula viii. Moral. T. ii. p. 240.-With what fear, with what conviction, with what affection of mind, should we partake of the body and blood of Christ? The Apostle teaches us to fear, when he says: He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself. (1 Cor. xi. 29.) While the words of the Lord: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you (Ibid. 24.) create a firm conviction.” Ibid. in Reg. brev. Interrog. clxxii. p. 472.-" The Christian must be without spot or stain-and thus prepared to eat the body of Christ, and drink his blood.” Ibid. In Moral Reg. lxxx. c. 22. p. 318.—“ It is very profitable, every day, to partake of the body and blood of Christ; since he himself says: He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life. (Jo. vi. 55) We communicate four times in the week, on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, and on other days, if there be a commemoration of any Saint.—At Alexandria, and in Egypt, the people, generally have the communion in their houses, and they receive it as they judge proper, having received it from the priest.” Ep. xcii. T. iii. p. 186.-“What can be said of that person, who dares idly, and uselessly, to eat the body, and drink the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ," and thus sometimes more afflicts the divine Spirit, while he eats without charity? Let us therefore judge, and not live to ourselves, but eat and drink to him, who died and rose again for us. It is the duty of him who approaches to the body