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 Heart for  man,  and  therefore  the  best  to excite  love  for  Him  in  the  heart  of  man.

"Let Him,"  says  St.  Augustine,  "be  nailed with  the  nails  of  love  in  the  center  of  thy heart,  who,  for  love  of  thee,  was  nailed  by the  hard  iron  nails  to  the  wood  of  the  cross." And the  Blessed  Sacrament  is  the  Sacrament of love. As to  imitation,  Our  Lord  practised all  virtues  at  all  times;  but  heroically so in  His  Passion,  because  in  the  most  trying circumstances, particularly  those  virtues which we  need  most  —  patience,  charity, forgiveness, the  sweet  silence,  or  the  right word in  the  right  way,  resignation,  and obedience to  His  Father's  hard  will  unto death. He called  the  bitter  cup  compounded by His  enemies  "the  chalice  of  His  Father," and drank  it,  slowly,  feeling  all  its  bitterness, to the  dregs. Sts. Chrysostom and  Bonaventure  put  well  this  lesson  of  imitation  taught us by  Him  in  His  Passion,  when  they  say. Nothing gives  the  common  soldier  such courage in  the  fight  as  to  keep  his  eyes  fixed on Jesus  Christ,  his  King,  in  the  front,  and bearing all  the  brunt  of  it."  "The  common soldier will  glory  in  his  little  wounds  if  he keeps  his  eyes  fixed  on  the  great  wounds which his  King  bore,  and  bears  for  love  of him."