The first section is on the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The next
section is on visits to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed
Virgin Mary. This includes an instruction on Spiritual Communion.
There are eight meditations for the Feast and Octave of Corpus
Christi. This is followed by a Novena to the Sacred Heart. Over 200
pages are devoted to meditations on charity, commenting on Saint
Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 13: Charity is...
This is followed by ten meditations on Charity. This work closes
with a pious exercise to obtain the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Saint Alphonsus writes on Spiritual Communion: As in all the
following visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament a spiritual
Communion is recommended, it will be well to explain what it is,
and the great advantages which result from its practice. A
spiritual Communion, according to St. Thomas, consists in an ardent
desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, and in lovingly
embracing Him as if we had actually received Him. How pleasing
these spiritual Communions are to God, and the many graces which He
bestows through their means, was manifested by our Lord Himself to
Sister Paula Maresca, the foundress of the convent of St. Catharine
of Sienna in Naples, when (as it is related in her life) He showed
her two precious vessels, the one of gold, the other of silver. He
then told her that in the gold vessel was preserved her sacramental
Commuinions, and in the silver one her spiritual Communions. He
also told Blessed Jane of the Cross that each time that she
communicated spiritually she received a grace of the same kind as
the one that she received when she really communicated. Above all,
it will suffice for us to know that the holy Council of Trent
greatly praises spiritual Communions, and encourages the faithful
to practice them. Hence all devout souls are accustomed often to
practice this holy exercise of spiritual Communion. Blessed Agatha
of the Cross did so two hundred times a day. And Father Peter
Faber, the first companion of St. Ignatius, used to say that it was
of the highest utility to make spiritual Communions, in order to
receive the sacramental Communion well. All those who desire to
advance in the love of Jesus Christ are exhorted to make a
spiritual Communion at least once in every visit that they pay to
the Most Blessed Sacrament, and at every Mass that they that they
hear; and it would even be better on these occasions to repeat the
Communions three times, that is to say, at the beginning, in the
middle, and at the end. This devotion is far more profitable than
some suppose, and at the same time nothing can be easier to
practice. The above-named Blessed Jane of the Cross used to say,
that a spiritual Communion can be made without any one remaking it,
without being fasting, without the permission of our director, and
that we can make it at any time we please: an act of love does all.
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