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176 powers, without reserve, to Jesus Christ and to His good pleasure, since in this most holy Sacrament He gives us His Blood and His Flesh, with His Soul, His Divinity, and His Merits. And, with the consciousness that our gift is so narrow, nay nothing, when compared with His, we should desire to possess, and to present to His Divine Majesty, all that has been, or ever will be, offered and given to Him by all creatures, on earth and in Heaven.

If your intention in communicating be to obtain some victory over your enemies and His, and to destroy them, begin, in this case, on the eve of your Communion, or before, to meditate on the desire of the Son of God to enter into your heart, and to unite Himself to you, and to help you to overcome your evil passions.

This desire is so intense and so boundless in Christ, that a created intellect is unable to comprehend it.

But that you may in some measure approach a just idea of it, there are two things which must be impressed on your mind. One is the unspeakable pleasure which God in His Goodness takes in dwelling with us; for He calls it His delight.

The other, His infinite hatred of sin, both as a bar and hindrance to His union with us,