“As the Body of Jesus Christ is a food, and a food intended to increase our spiritual strength, we have only to see in what spiritual strength consists to be able to judge of the good effect of our Communions. It is evident that all our spiritual strength ought to be employed against ourselves, against our own inclinations, against our natural aversions, against our cowardice, our inconstancy, our weakness, against the horror that we have of all that crosses us, of all that restrains us, against our own spirit and our own will, in short, against all in us that resists God and the destroying operations of his grace. If then we find that this strength increases in us day by day, through Communion, if we acquire more mastery over ourselves, if we are less touchy and sensitive, more generous in undertaking, more patient in suffering, more faithful to our good resolutions, more indifferent to the esteem or contempt of men, more obedient to all the impulses of divine grace, more ready for all the sacrifices God asks of us, this is an infallible proof of the goodness of our Communions.”
— Fr. Jean-Nicolas Grou, S.J. (died 1803)
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