ADDRESS.

WE first of all ask you to read these few words of address: they are to help you to understand how to use this book-the result to be gained by using it,—and the object for which it has been compiled.

This little book is drawn up with a humble prayer to GOD that it may help to further His honour and glory; and that it may do so rests with each one of you who use it. Its object is to help you to love the LORD JESUS more and more by showing you how to find Him in His Temple, and to help you to walk in the way thither-by a careful preparation to meet Him, by fervent prayers to Him while He is present with you, and by a hearty thanksgiving that He has allowed you the privilege of being in His Royal Presence; so that thus you may live lives more and more as those who "have been with JESUS."

Will you, then, for His sake help out

the object of this book, and so cause GOD'S Honour and Glory to be furthered, to your own salvation?

As you learn to know some dear friend in a far off land by studying his portrait and his letters, so by constantly attending on the Holy Feast you learn to know the Master of the Feast better and better. And as when that dear friend comes himself to visit you after a long while waiting, you would be thus ready instantly to recognize and welcome him; so, after your Confirmation, when the Master comes and knocks and asks a lodging, you will instantly know His Voice and recognize His Face (for you have already learned to know it,) and will welcome Him as a guest long looked for into the bridal chamber of your heart, never, GOD grant, to leave it.

Will it not be so? Is it not your wish that it should be so? Let then this little book be your guidebook by which you may learn to know this friend whom you long to know.

In passing, we would add this one word of advice. Study the book, and see what it is all about before you begin to use it, either in your private prayers or in church. And to help you in the use of it, we will explain two or three words which you may not at first quite understand.

I. Intention-is the great object you have at heart, and desire earnestly. It may be a desire for some grace or virtue, a blessing on yourself or others, an earnest wish to thank GOD for some benefit received; but whatever it is, you should carefully settle it a day or two beforehand, (as you will see in the preparation prayers) so that you may have one thought and offering ready in your mind to bring with you when you come to the service. It will save you much distraction if you accustom yourself to do this carefully now, as when the happy time arrives for you to be a partaker at the Feast, it is even more important that you should come thus ready prepared. By learning, therefore this habit now, you will find its value then.

II. Spiritual Communion-is the earnest longing of a devout soul to receive JESUS into herself, to be made one with Him, accompanied with a real faith that

He will so come if we desire it. It is not so grand a thing as Sacramental Communion, but it is most helpful to us, and we can make an Act of Spiritual Communion at any time and place; but especially so when He is especially present with us in the Blessed Sacrament. And since you may not yet (or so often, as

the case may be) venture to receive Him sacramentally, you can do nothing more pleasing to Him or helpful to your own soul than to make Spiritual Communion with Him in His Presence. You will find a special form of Spiritual Communion given you at the proper place; use it with all your heart and affections.

(This privilege of Spiritual Communion was a delight and blessing to the saints, and whenever you may be tempted to sin, if you could at once retire quietly and make this holy Act, the devil would be more easily conquered and thrown down.)

III. Reparation-means trying to make up by our present devotion for past neglect, especially with regard to our LORD'S Honour and Glory in the Blessed Sacrament. And when we call to mind how irreverently It has at times been treated and misused in all parts of the Catholic Church, at home and abroad, by those who "knew not what they did," surely we do not want much stirring up to cause us to make frequent and devout Acts of Reparation to repair, in our poor way, as best we can, the honour of our dearest LORD and Master. Think of the treatment of His Body by His murderers, and then the treatment of the same Body by the holy Joseph of Arimathea, and Nico