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PROPER OF THE TIME.

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PROPER OF THE TIME. The

Liturgical

Season, over which presides the

and

Spirit of sanctification

commenced

love, has

its

career amidst the brightness of a light which is new, both for the Church and the christian soul. The of our intellect, veiled by the protecting cover of faith, has ventured to gaze on the deep things of God ; x in the midst of the eternal relations which make up the holy Trinity, we have been enabled to discern those sublime links which exist between each of the Divine Persons and man, nothingness

weak eye

though he be by his own origin. Then, too, we have been given to know Him who is Eternal Wisdom this Wisdom is the Incarnate Word and the time for man's coming to know that Wisdom was the Feast of the Eucharist it was through the revelation then made known to him of the divine love for mankind, that man understood why it was that the world had been created. Beyond these grand teachings given to us by the bright Festivals, first of Trinity Sunday, and then of Corpus Christi, we had the Sacred Heart of Jesus repeating to us, and summing up in itself, all these mysteries that Divine Heart was revealed to

us as the source of supernatural life, as the organ of praise, as the centre where the love of God for man, and the love of man for God, were united. All this has filled the whole earth with the magnificence of the supernatural order. It was with these three bright mysteries, as celebrated by the Church immediately after Pentecost Sunday, that the reign of the Holy Ghost was begun for us this Year of Grace. Our Emmanuel himself, 1

1 Cor.

ii.

10.

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