Cardinal Newman Cardinal Newman

FEBRUARY 16

Frequent Communion and Holiness
PRAYER.

Blessed Savior, You have given me the privilege of receiving You in Holy Communion. Help me to appreciate this marvelous gift.

BLESSED are they if they knew their blessedness who are allowed, as we are, Midweek after week, to seek and find the Savior of their souls! Blessed are they who are allowed to eat and drink the Food of immortality and receive life from the bleeding side of the Son of God!

Alas! By what strange coldness of heart or perverse superstition is it that anyone called Christian keeps away from that heavenly banquet?

-Christ, a Quickening Spirit e



Reproduced with permission from
LEAD KINDLY LIGHT; MINUTE MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY TAKEN FROM THE WORKS OF CARDINAL NEWMAN
Edited by Rev. James C. Sharp
Copyright (c) 1993
Catholic Book Publishing Co.
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