January 25
Whose Temple ye are
Companions of the Way (Morning)"AMEN, I say unto you there are some of them that stand here that shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom." Again, "I did not say that he should not die, but that he should not die till I come." To some, not necessarily, perhaps, the greatest saints, Christ is actually and perceptibly risen. He has turned the water of nature into the wine of the Marriage Feast, though "His time is not yet come," and, to the Sacrament of the Real Presence, He has added a Sacrament of the Manifest Presence. For souls thus favoured, the Church's teaching and rites are but as a scaffolding which has fulfilled its purpose. The Temple is built and occupied. "Felix quem Veritas per se docet. . . . Taceant omnes doctores."
COVENTRY PATMORE
THE PRESENCE