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Final Advice in Regard to Holy Communion
This explanation is intended to reassure such persons as are disposed to feel anxious when they find nothing in their hearts to correspond with the effusions of sensible love with which books of devotion abound in the preparation for Holy Communion. These usually make the mistake of taking for granted the invariable existence of sentiment, and of addressing it exclusively. How many souls do we not see who in consequence grow alarmed about their condition, believing they are devoid of grace notwithstanding their firm will to shun sin and to please God! They should, however, not give way to anxiety, nor exhaust themselves by vain efforts to excite in their hearts a sensibility that God has not given them.
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~ Light and Peace, R.P. Quadrupani, Barnabite (1904), written in 1795.
Sedes Sapientiæ, ora pro nobis.
Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.
