TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF MONSEIGNEUR DE LA BOUILLERIE, Archbishop of Perga, Coadjutor of Bordeaux.
O Christian soul, meditate on these thoughts. I have placed to-day before you these two expressions, which the love of the Saviour has united — the Eucharist and poverty. The Eucharist is God Himself. Poverty is the humblest condition of the human being. But love has performed this beautiful miracle, that a God should become Poor in the Eucharist in order that, in Its turn, the Eucharist might deify poverty.
O what a precious gift from the Lord is the Christian life ! It does not prevent poverty, but it makes us love the Eucharist, and at the foot of the tabernacle, the poorer we are, the better we understand that the Eucharist is worth more than all the treasures of earth.
O what a precious gift from the Lord is the Christian life ! It does not prevent poverty, but it makes us love the Eucharist, and at the foot of the tabernacle, the poorer we are, the better we understand that the Eucharist is worth more than all the treasures of earth.
