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 in whose "strength" I will walk like another Elias,"unto the mount of God, Horeb," ascending from virtue to virtue, until I clearly and manifestly behold Him whom in this blessed sacrament I receive.

2. I will conclude with a colloquy to this our Lord, beseeching Him that although the sacramental species being consumed He departs, as regards His corporeal presence, yet that He would always remain with me, according to His spiritual presence, awakening my memory that I may always be mindful of Him, illustrating my understanding that I may always think and meditate upon Him, and inflaming my will that it may always be united with Him, world without end, Amen.

The principal end of this meditation is, to encourage those who walk in the purgative way to the exercise of penal works, to pay the pains that they owe for their sins; and likewise it may be exercised on All Souls' Day in remembrance of the dead, to move us to have compassion on them, and to assist them.

First I am to consider that God our Lord has ordained that whosoever shall die, having committed mortal or venial sin, although the fault be pardoned him, yet if he have not paid the pain correspondent to it he shall not enter into heaven until he pay it in a prison under the earth, deputed to this end,' which is called purgatory, to which the soul of