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“Look on yourselves as people about to receive the adorable Body and precious Blood of Jesus Christ; and rouse in your hearts the sentiments of the centurion to communicate spiritually or sacramentally. The example of the centurion is so much to be admired that it seems as if the Church took pleasure in putting it before our eyes each day at Holy Mass.

‘Lord,’ said this humble soldier, ‘I am not worthy that Thou shouldst come to my house, but, say only the word, and my servant shall be healed.’

Ah! if the good God saw in us this same humility, this same recognition of our nothingness, with what pleasure and with what an abundance of graces would He not come into our hearts. What strength and courage to conquer the enemy of our salvation.”

(From The Eucharistic Meditations of the Cure of Ars)