Listen to our Blessed
Mother:
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“My child, when you find yourself dry at Communion time,
humble yourself with the reflection that you deserve such a condition because of
your unfaithfulness. Then bear your burden patiently in expiation of your sins
and do not lose heart.
If you have reason to believe that your state of deprivation
is really a punishment, then change your ways. If it is only a trial, then turn
it into a source of merit through your submissions.
The profit from a good Communion is not necessarily connected
with enjoyment at the time of reception. The profit to which I refer is
fidelity to one’s duties.
A heart may be sincerely and entirely dedicated to God and
yet find no pleasure in the things of God.
Many souls who are advancing fervently along the path of
perfection are tested by dryness in prayer and even when they approach the
Eucharistic table.
Virtue does not depend on tangible consolations. On the
contrary, it is to be feared that souls may not be sufficiently detached from
such consolation.
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