The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
CHAPTER VII
The Eucharist
...And now by a beautiful paradox of Divine Love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation.
We have slain Him! we nailed Him there! we crucified Him! But Love in His eternal Heart willed not to be defeated.
He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth.
He made our very crime a happy fault. He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into life-everlasting.
[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
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