Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE TRANSFORMATION (continued.) From our Lord's Presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, we derive special indications of the true character of our transformation in God. For the mystery is full of practical applications as to the qualities of grace in which we are to resemble God, and hold intimate living communion with Him, because He therein exhibits Himself as the Teacher and Model of His Faithful. Not only do we there receive the increase of spiritual life: we also learn the characteristics of the life which He wills us to acquire, the direction which it should take, the laws by which it grows. There are three different aspects under which our Blessed Lord's Life in His Sacramental Presence is to be viewed, or three modes in which more especially He therein manifests Himself. There is (1,) His Life towards the Father; (2,) His Life within itself: and (3,) His Life towards us. Under each of these aspects of our Lord's Sacramental life, practical lessons may be drawn as to our own. (1.) There is the perpetual intercession before the Father for His own elect, in ceaseless love pleading for us; the constant presentation of Himself as a victim, by Himself as a Priest, offering for sin, pleading Hissacrifice, as He bears His people in His heart, seeking for them forgiveness and the outpourings of all His powers to save. There too in His Humanity He adores the Father, on Whom He ever gazes, still absorbed in the longing, which on earth as a fire consumed Him, of increasing the glory of His Father, by winning and perfecting the souls whom the Father's love draws to Him. This intent direction of His thought to the Father, as the object of adoration, of atoning love, of ceaseless prayer, is as prominent a feature of our Lord's Sacramental Presence, as it was ...