call to mind the Last Supper, in which Christ instituted the
sacrifice of the Mass, and gave Himself to us all to be our food.
Oughtest thou not to acknowledge and give Him thanks for this
excess of love?
_Affections._
Jesus, “having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them unto the
end.”—John xiii. 1.
“For Thou hast prepared a table before me, against them that afflict
me.”—Ps. xxii. 5.
“I will sacrifice to Thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon
the name of the Lord.”—Ps. cxv. 17.
When The Priest Is Descending From The Altar Before Commencing The Mass,
consider Christ after the Last Supper going from Mount Sion, where
the Supper had been held, to the Garden of Gethsemani. “And His
disciples also followed Him.”—Luke xxii. 39. And wilt thou forsake
thy God in the time of temptation and trial?
_Affections._
“In what place soever Thou shalt be, my Lord King, ... there will Thy
servant be.”—2 Kings xv. 21.
“It is good for me to stick close to my God: to put my hope in the Lord
God.”—Ps. lxxii. 28.
“Lord, I am ready to go with Thee both into prison and to death.”—Luke
xxii. 33.