attitude of absorbed attention, the Holy Spirit, through whom He offered Himself without spot to God,1 imprints upon us, as does the light of the sun, the characteristic traits of the model we are contemplating; He Himself begins to live in our soul. He promised it in the words, "The Spirit will glorify me in you; and St. Paul verifies it in that saying which sums up his most sublime experiences, "We, with open face beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory" (i.e. from His glory to ours), "even as by the Spirit of the Lord."3 "2 Under those conditions, it is possible to begin with success the great work of our moral renewal, and to spring forward upon the pathway of sanctification which leads up to heaven, without being troubled with the fear of succumbing in the middle, or even on the lowest step, of the ascent. By His death, Christ our righteousness and our peace; by His life on earth and in heaven, Christ our sanctification and our strength; thus we have salvation offered to the soul of man. To receive Christ in this twofold character by the mighty recep 1 Heb. ix. 14. 3 2 Cor. iii. 18. 2 St. John xvi. 14. tivity of faith, is what Jesus calls, in His symbolic language, "to eat His flesh and drink His blood."1 You all know that it is to these two acts combined that He has Himself attached the possession of life. 1 St. John vi. 53, 54. VI. THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST. ESUS, at the end of His ministry in Galilee, one JE day taking His disciples into a solitary place, addressed to them this question: "Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am?" The disciples had just completed their first missionary journey among the plains of Galilee. There they had heard the opinions expressed by various men respecting their Master, and they brought Him a true report of them. Some said He was John the Baptist risen from the dead; others, that He was one of the prophets, Jeremiah or Elijah; all held Him not a mere man, but an extraordinary personage. Jesus afterwards drew the apostles into an expression of their own belief as to His person; and Simon Peter expressed it in a saying which has lived on as the confession of faith of the Church universal: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." This profession of faith Jesus received with joy, and gave it His sanction in the words: "Blessed |