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CONTENTS.

IX FAGB

Way

all of us should keep

The Church alone is close to the Church; 107. St. Teresa, how safe, in divine things; 107. " proud of her title of Daughter of the Church ;" 107. The Church's grief, at seeing countless numbers of men disdaining their vocation, which Ber children by Baptism; is divine Union; 108.

them the Unitive

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if

they would but follow her sublime Liturgy, she

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would lead them to Union; 108. The Church herself, by her Liturgy, is our model: it is Faith alone that unites her to her Jesus she loves him, without seeing him; 108. The Apostolic teachings regarding her Jesus and his Mysteries ; on these she lives; and her ceaseless Liturgy is the ceaseless expression of how she lives, and the whole Year round, on what her Faith alone tells her is her 109. Jesus, and his riches, and his Mysteries Her celebrations of those magnificences are those magnificences made her realities ; 109. It is the Holy Ghost who achieves that exquisite Union between Christ and his Church it is the very meaning of theLiturgy of the Time after Pentecost; 110No wonder that this lastseasonof the. Liturgical Year is as long as, or longer than all the others put together, which wehavepassed through,

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from Advent to Ascension

110. This Time

after Pentecost is the longest, because it has for its object the real life of the Church during her sojourn here below ; 110. This season is the one

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wherein Jesus wins the end, towards which all his labours were done, that is, Union of the members with himself their Head, by the action of the Holy Ghost; 110— The seed of the Word has been sown during the years of his life and mysteries on earth (which are all yearly repeated by the Liturgy from Advent to Ascension) and now, the Time after Pentecost is that Seed's fruit-

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making Time;

110.

— Love

is

now

in its full

power it shows itself by Prayer, by Suffering, and by Action Action is an imperative result of Love; 110. The dangers of false Quietude, which holds that all the grand proofs of Love are a distraction; 110. The Time Season of working

its

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after Pentecost represents our whole life being spent in actions done out of love for Jesus, which

the Holy Ghost, through Mother Church,

is

ever

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