Prayers & Reflections for February 26

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER VII
The Eucharist

...The supernatural life has two sides: the building up of the Christ pattern and the tearing down of the old Adam.

Communion therefore implies not only a "receiving" but also a "giving." There can be no ascent to a higher life without death to a lower one.

Does not an Easter Sunday presuppose a Good Friday?

Does not all love imply mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery?

This being so, should not the Communion rail be a place of exchange, instead of a place of exclusive receiving?...

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons