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 to be the result of frequent communion. On the other hand, this will make you able to perceive even lesser failings, so that you will have more to confess than you formerly had.

5. A fifth objection you may make is that however often you go to confession and communion, you do not improve in the least! Now tell me how long have you observed the custom of daily or frequent communion? A whole year? Yes. And, of course, you always approached the Holy Table in the proper disposition - with a right intention. In that case, my friend, it is impossible that you can have remained the same, just as impossible as it would be for you to remain cold when sitting close to a blazing fire. Imperceptibly, perhaps, but nevertheless surely, you will make spiritual progress; you will grow in holiness by receiving daily or frequently in your soul the Most Holy God just as your body grows, though you do not observe it, when you take your meals daily. The Council of Trent calls the Eucharist "the Antidote whereby we are delivered from daily faults and preserved from deadly sins."

A sixth objection is thus expressed by you: "I do not like to go to confession." Well, then, go without liking it. No doubt all who go to confession have the same feeling; no one finds a natural pleasure in the act. But no one, for instance, only works just as much as he likes. And if people give themselves immense trouble and wear themselves out for the sake of earthly gain, ought not one to make the trifling exertion which is necessary in order to go frequently to communion for the sake