Prayers & Reflections for February 28

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER VII
The Eucharist

The Pauline injunction bids us fill up in our body the sufferings wanting to the Passion of Christ.

We must therefore bring a spirit of sacrifice to the Eucharistic table; we must bring the mortification of our lower self, the crosses patiently borne, the crucifixion of our egotisms, the death of our concupiscence, and even the very difficulty of our coming to Communion.

Then does Communion become what it was always intended to be, namely, a commerce between Christ and the soul, in which we not only receive His Life but also announce His Death...

[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