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 He loved  them  unto  the  end"  (John  xiii.  i). Thereupon,  as  the  other  evangelists  tell  us, Jesus  instituted  the  Most  Holy  Sacrament  of the  Altar.  This  was  therefore  the  token  that Jesus  loved  His  own  unto  the  end.  The  Most Holy  Eucharist  is  indeed  the  Sacrament  of Love;  it  is  in  truth  a  miracle  of  love.  Simply for  love  of  us  poor  human  beings  is  Jesus  Christ really  and  truly  present  in  the  Most  Holy  Sacrament of  the  Altar.  From  the  Tabernacle  therefore does  He  unceasingly  call  to  us:  "Come unto me,  all  you  that  labor  and  are  burdened, and I  will  refresh  you!"

2. It  is  especially  necessary  that  you,  my youthful  reader,  should  keep  your  belief  in  the real presence  of  Jesus  in  the  Most  Holy  Sacrament ever  alive  within  your  soul. For this re? son call  to  mind  the  principal  foundations  of this  belief.

The first  foundation  rests  upon  the  promise of Him  who  is  the  Eternal  Truth. When Jesus Christ, the  God-Man,  promises  anything,  He fails  not  to  fulfil  that  promise. He solemnly promiser to  institute  the  Most  Holy  Sacrament. When upon  one  occasion,  after  the  miraculous multiplication of  the  loaves,  the  people  came  to Him  in  the  hope  of  obtaining  a  further  supply of bread,  He  referred  them  to  another  kind  of bread,  which  He  would  bestow  upon  them. And what  kind  of  bread  did  He  mean? He said : "  The  bread  that  I  will  give  is  My  flesh, for  the  life  of  the  world,"  that  is  to  say,  the selfsame flesh  which  He  offered  up  on  the  cross in order  that  the  world,  all  mankind,  should have eternal  life. Thus plainly  and  definitely did Jesus  promise  that  He  would  really  and truly give  His  flesh  to  be  our  food.