Manual of Devotions for the Blessed Sacrament - Frederick George Lee

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...for Him they constantly sighed; Him they regarded in all their sacrifices, which were, indeed, so many figures of Him, and of His death. All these figures were to have an end when Christ Himself, the very Truth, came in person into the world, and offered Himself upon the Cross, a sacrifice for the sins of the world. But still His death and passion is to be the perpetual object of the devotion of all His children and servants, even to the end of the world; not now, as prefigured, in shadows and types, but as commemorated and celebrated in the Eucharistic Sacrifice and Sacrament, containing and exhibiting verily and indeed (that is, in very truth, ) our Great High Priest and Victim, Jesus Christ. For the ancient figures are now passed, and the truth has succeeded in their place: and that same fountain of all sanctity, Who of old communicated Himself to His servants spiritually by faith, now gives Himself to us verily and indeed in these heavenly mysteries. For this manner of communicating Himself was best becoming the new law, which is a law of love, a law of grace, and a law of truth. O my soul! admire and adore the riches of the bounty and goodness of thy God and Saviour, Who gives thee in this Sacrament so great a gift, that heaven itself has nothing greater! Embrace His love, but let it be with a suitable return of love; and see thou prepare thyself worthily to receive so great a visit. O take care to open wide thy heart, that it may be capable to hold those treasures which He brings with Him, and which He desires to impart to thee I Consider, secondly, the figures by which God was pleased in the Old Testament to foreshew this Sacrament; especially these three, the Tree of Life, the Paschal Lamb, and the Manna from Heaven. The Tree of..