Prayers & Reflections for February 24

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER VII
The Eucharist

Communion is first of all the receiving of Divine Life, a life to which we are no more entitled than marble is entitled to blooming.

It is a pure gift of an all-merciful God who so loved us that He willed to be united with us, not in the bonds of flesh, but in the ineffable bonds of the Spirit where love knows no satiety, but only rapture and joy.

[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